Ebook: How Star Wars conquered the universe: the past, present, and future of a multibillion dollar franchise

A Navajo hope -- Mars wars -- The land of zoom -- Plastic spacemen -- Hyperspace drive -- How to be a Jedi -- Buck Rogers in the twentieth century -- Home free -- My little space thing -- Spoof wars -- Star Wars has a posse -- The first reel -- Release -- The accidental empire -- Here come the clones! -- How to exceed in sequels -- Being Boba -- End of the Jedi? -- Between the wars -- The universe expands -- Return of the writer -- Special addition -- The line -- The prequels conquer Star Wars -- Building character -- How I stopped worrying and learned to love the prequels -- Using the universe -- Hello Disney -- Across the universe.;Traces the history of the film series from the difficult creation of the original film to the preparations for a new trilogy, providing portraits of the people who labored behind the scenes to turn George Lucas' idea into a legend.