There are subtle differences in dialogue, Jabba is still referred to as a Hut, with one t, and that all important kiss in the Millennium Falcon is actually uninterrupted by an intrusive protocol droid, and it’s easy to see the romance bloom a little more fully in the novel. I hadn’t read this book since 1980, and I was delighted to revisit it. It was through this story, as well as the Topps collector cards that I learned the names and details of a number of things that populated the universe that I loved so much. We didn’t have video tapes, and I couldn’t spend countless hours in a theatre watching it over and over again. It was like playing the movie out in my head all over again, whenever I liked. I remember digging into it, and being delighted when I came to the first appearance of Han Solo, delighting in things I remembered from the movie. For some reason, my mom read a bit of it first, perhaps making sure I would be able to get through it, I wasn’t quite nine at the time. On a camping trip with my family, probably on our way back from a trip down east to visit family, we were at a KOA and I convinced one of my parents to buy me a copy of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the novelization of the film, my first Star Wars book, excluding the Scholastic storybooks. Not even any of the Marvel comics, though I remember reading some on Cub Scout summer camps, as they made their way around. And my sister I both owned one, I had Star’s End, she had Revenge.īut that was in about 1984, just before we moved house and countries.īack in 1980, I didn’t have anything but some of the action figures. Both novels debuted in 1979, and I read them last year on vacation. After Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, we were treated to two more novels, Han Solo at Star’s End, and Han Solo’s Revenge both written by Brian Daley.

Donald f glut empire strikes back