Splinter of the Mind's Eye
I remember, during fourth grade, owning a paperback of 1978's Splinter of the Mind's Eye , Alan Dean Foster's follow-up to a movie from the year before called STAR WARS . It would be the first of many spin-offs in the universe created by George Lucas. I don't recall reading this novel all the way through when I was nine. I might've, but it didn't lodge in memory, any more than the SW comic books that followed. Tangent or in-between tales that have not been deemed "canon". Disney, who's owned the property for over a decade now, calls these offshoots "legends". Still sufficient catnip for rabid fans. The action unfolds on Circarpous V, a planet away from Circarpous IV, where Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are due for an important Rebel Alliance meeting. Their ships are downed by a mysterious energy storm, and they will have a time of it inching across a swampy terrain, learning the locals - many hostile - call their home Mimban. I...
