The Secret History of Star Wars e-book

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I saw this on slashdot and thought I would share.

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.

The Secret History of Star Wars

It's a 553 page 4.4MB PDF.

I looked over it quickly and Kaminski has done a lot of research with 27 pages of footnotes to back up his research.