Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

The book

Not the film. This is the 1976 Del Rey paperback, published as *Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker* — six months BEFORE the film, when McQuarrie's production paintings were the only images of Star Wars that existed anywhere. It was written from an early draft, so it carries a full Biggs subplot at Anchorhead and scenes that were never filmed. And it shipped without a single picture in it.

Why Ralph McQuarrie

This is the one cycle in the Folio that is not an interpretation but a repair. The book came out too early, in a world with no visual vocabulary for it, illustrated by nothing. The paintings that would have been the obvious source were sitting in a production office at the time.

Illustrating that edition in his hand is not pastiche. It is finishing a book that arrived before its own pictures.

What to look for

The unfilmed pages. Anchorhead, Tosche Station, Biggs before he leaves — five plates of a subplot most readers have never seen drawn, and the ones worth having, because they have no famous frame to be measured against.

Plates

Another Galaxy, Another TimeThe PlansThreepio WalksBuying DroidsBiggs Has LeftThe Jundland WastesThe LightsaberThe CheckpointLeaving TatooineTrainingThe PrincessThe Robe Falls