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TIL the novel "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" (1978) by Alan Dean Foster was originally written as a low-budget sequel to "Star Wars" (1977) in the event that film would financially fail. Instead, after the film's success, the novel became among the first works in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

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