CONTENTS

        Introduction: A Navajo Hope

  1    Mars Wars

  2    The Land of Zoom

  3    Plastic Spacemen

  4    Hyperspace Drive

  5    How to Be a Jedi

  6    Buck Rogers in the Twentieth Century

  7    Home Free

  8    My Little Space Thing

  9    Spoof Wars

10    Stars Wars Has a Posse

11    The First Reel

12    Release

13    The Accidental Empire

14    Here Come the Clones!

15    How to Exceed in Sequels

16    Being Boba

17    End of the Jedi?

18    Between the Wars

19    The Universe Expands

20    Return of the Writer

21    Special Addition

22    The Line

23    The Prequels Conquer Star Wars

24    Building Character

25    How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Prequels

26    Using the Universe

27    Hello Disney

        Conclusion: Across the Universe

        Acknowledgments

        Notes

        Index