The Secret History of Star Wars

lennier writes "How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good? Did he really have a masterplan for six, nine, or even twelve episodes, and why did the official Lucasfilm position keep changing? And just how big an influence were the films of Akira Kurosawa on the whole saga? Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unauthorized, e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved. Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked."

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Do I get to keep my geek card?

[SlappyBastard]

Considering my raw hatred of D&D, role playing, cosplay, and various other nerd behaviors, I burned by nerd card around the time I decided that academic performance was for suckers and was also eating into my coding time.

As long as I keep my geek card with its C endorsement for coding, I could care less about Star Wars. Although, Lando is still awesome -- he has a cloud city! How fucking cool is that?

Let me know when you have a secret history of Firefly. I might be able to feign interest in that, what with the significantly hotter chicks in it.

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[lgordon]

Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unedited, unprofessionally written and unreadable e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved."

FTFY