@scalzi

I have, on my bookshelf, a copy of the novelisation of the first film, published in 1977 and written by George Lucas. As a child, the second and third were repeated on TV a lot but I never saw the first one, so I grabbed the book when I saw it.

I was confused by a lot of the uproar around the restored scenes in the remastered ones, because things like the scene with Jabba were in the novelisation.

The title of the book is:

Star Wars: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker.

@david_chisnall @scalzi

The Star Wars novel was written by Alan Dean Foster.

Pointing this out because Alan Dean Foster is a fine writer and worth looking into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_From_the_Adventures_of_Luke_Skywalker

@billiglarper @scalzi

Huh, not mentioned on the cover at all, but not surprising in hindsight, it reads a lot like him.

I've read a bunch of his other things, but this was my one example of good writing by George Lucas, so now I'm just disappointed in him.