!Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread!

[A Black Falcon]

Not quite, Splinter of the Mind's Eye preceeded it by about 5 years.

Actually, about 15 years. 'Splinter' came out between ANH and ESB, after all, while the Zahn trilogy (and the modern Star Wars fiction series) started in, I believe, 1994. 1992 or 1993 at the earliest. Even saying the latest date for Splinter and the earliest for Zahn's book, it was 10 years at least (and almost certainly more).

The other Star Wars books in the late '70s/early '80s (after these there was pretty much nothing for ten years) include the three Han Solo Adventures books (great fun, read them! Han Solo at Star's End, Han Solo ... something ... and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (collected in one volume) and the three Lando Calrissian Adventures books (also now collected in one volume), which I haven't read but which are supposedly pretty bad.

Narnia movie... I find it a bit odd that they went with Lion as the first movie instead of Magician's Nephew. Oh well, the second book is the most famous of them for reasons I'm pretty much unaware of.

Um... because it's the first book, going by publishing date? :)

Older editions of the books don't have them in the current chronological order, you know... the ones out town library (that is, the first version I read) had for instance had The Lion, The Witch, and the Warderobe as book 1, while Magician's Nephew was... book five or so? Actually, I think A Horse and his Boy was book 4, and Magician's Nephew was book 6... or something like that. :) The point is, not the chronological order -- and I'll bet the majority of people who have read the series started with 'Warderobe'.

What I'm comparing this movie to, though, isn't so much the book as it is the '80s BBC television version of Narnia (they did TLTWATW, 'Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader', and 'The Silver Chair' -- leaving out the two "side plot" novels without the major characters and the final one, either because of lack of money or because it's too religious...), which we own on tape and is pretty good, once you ignore its low production values at times...