Who wrote The Han Solo Adventures trilogy?
The Han Solo Adventures was written by Brian Daley, an American science-fiction novelist. Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, published all three novels.
Questions about The Han Solo Adventures
Short answers, pulled from the story.
When were The Han Solo Adventures books published?
The trilogy was published between 1979 and 1980. Han Solo at Stars' End and Han Solo's Revenge both appeared in 1979, and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy was published in August 1980. An omnibus edition collecting all three appeared in 1992.
Where do The Han Solo Adventures take place in the Star Wars timeline?
The books are set two years before the events of the original Star Wars film, during Han Solo and Chewbacca's smuggling days. The events were later incorporated into the Expanded Universe timeline through interludes in Rebel Dawn, the 1998 final volume of Ann C. Crispin's Han Solo Trilogy.
Why was the droid Bollux renamed Zollux in UK editions of Han Solo at Stars' End?
UK editions changed the name Bollux to Zollux because Bollux sounds like the British slang term bollocks, which is regarded as profanity in the United Kingdom, meaning testicles or, more colloquially, nonsense.
Which elements from The Han Solo Adventures became part of official Star Wars canon?
After Disney rebranded the Expanded Universe as Legends, several elements from the trilogy survived into official canon. The Z-95 Headhunter, first mentioned in Han Solo at Stars' End, was canonised as a predecessor to the X-wing in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The Corporate Sector, Tion Hegemony, Etti IV, and Bonadan were made canon in official reference material. The skull of Xim the Despot from the cover of Han Solo and the Lost Legacy appeared as an easter egg in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story.
What was the first non-movie Star Wars book ever published?
Splinter of the Mind's Eye, published in 1978, was the first non-movie Star Wars book. The Han Solo Adventures trilogy, beginning with Han Solo at Stars' End in 1979, was the first set of novels to expand the universe after that single earlier title.