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The Empire Strikes Back By Brian Daley

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Title:The Empire Strikes Back
Author:Brian Daley
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ISBN:1565110005

National Public Radio s 1981 adaptation of Star Wars was one of the most successful presentations in the history of radio and a very tough act to follow Nevertheless, two years later, the members of the Star Wars production team eagerly returned to create a radio version of The Empire Strikes Back.Like its predecessor, this electrifying drama boasts an outstanding cast i National Public Radio s 1981 adaptation of Star Wars was one of the most successful presentations in the history of radio and a very tough act to follow Nevertheless, two years later, the members of the Star Wars production team eagerly returned to create a radio version of The Empire Strikes Back.Like its predecessor, this electrifying drama boasts an outstanding cast including Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Anthony Daniels as See Threepio, Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, and John Lithgow as Yoda a greatly expanded script, with many scenes not found in the movie and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence The Empire Strikes Back takes you once into a galaxy of pure sound and limitless imagination for an adventure you ll never forget Star Wars 1993 Lucasfilm Ltd.


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Brian was born in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey on Dec 22, 1947 A blizzard kept him and his mother at the hospital over Christmas, and the nurses sang Away in a Manger to them His middle name is Charles He grew up in Rockleigh, NJ His mother s name was Myra and his father s name was Charles He has an older brother, David, and a younger sister, also named Myra He had no child Brian was born in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey on Dec 22, 1947 A blizzard kept him and his mother at the hospital over Christmas, and the nurses sang Away in a Manger to them His middle name is Charles He grew up in Rockleigh, NJ His mother s name was Myra and his father s name was Charles He has an older brother, David, and a younger sister, also named Myra He had no children of his own, but he was always great with his two nieces and four nephews He went to Nathan Hale Elementary School in Norwood, NJ, and a consolidated High School Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, NJ Brian loved to read, drive his 74 Corvette Stingray, spend summers with me on Martha s Vineyard, and travel to wild and exotic places like the jungles of Guatemala and Mexico, and the mountains of Nepal He said he wanted to write from an early age, about third grade He also read a LOT of science fiction as a kid, and that inspired him After he graduated from high school in 1965 he joined the army and went to Vietnam for a year s tour of duty Then he went to Berlin, Germany After the army he went to Jersey City State College, majoring in media While attending college and working as a waiter at a local steak house, he also wrote his first novel, Doomfarers of Coromande Del Rey Books accepted it and started him on his writing career The editor picked Brian s manuscript out of the slush pile unsolicited manuscripts because it was the most neatly typed, but it wasn t accepted right away The editor made Brian do a lot of re writing When the first STAR WARS movie came out Brian saw it, and he was elated He said he came out of the theater fundamentally changed His editor asked which character he would like to write about for a movie related novel Brian said he picked Han Solo because Han was the only one who made a moral decision he started out on the wrong side of the law, but joined with the good guys And to tell you the truth, Brian was a whole lot like Han, a maverick He died of pancreatic cancer in February of 1996 He had just turned 49 He wrote the adaptation for National Public Radio drama THE RETURN OF THE JEDI while he was undergoing chemotherapy He died at his house in Maryland the night the Jedi radio cast was toasting him at their wrap party, having finished the taping of the shows that day When they posted the notice of his death, messages began coming in from all over the world The gist of them was that his passing created a disturbance in the Force Brian Daley s first novel, The Doomfarers of Coramonde, was published on the first Del Rey list in 1977 It was an immediate success, and Brian went on to write its sequel, The Starfollowers of Coramonde, and many other successful novels A Tapestry of Magics, three volumes of The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh, and, under the shared pseudonym Jack McKinney , ten and one half of the twenty one Robotech novels He first conceived of the complex GammaL.A.W. saga in Nepal, in 1984, and worked on its four volumes for the next twelve years, finishing it shortly before his death in 1996



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National Public Radio s 1981 adaptation of Star Wars was one of the most successful presentations in the history of radio and a very tough act
The Empire Strikes Back
Brian Daley

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