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Re: next year
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Date: 
Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:17:40 GMT
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It's been quite a while since I read the book, but I seem to remember
Vader's arm being chopped off by Luke for one. That doesn't fit with ESB
or ROTJ very well. That and the other interactions between Vader and
Luke in the book wouldn't fit very well with the father-son connection
revealed in ESB. There's probably other things as well, but I don't
remember enough specifics of the book to go into them.

--
later...    Jer
irvinej@accuvera.com

"Adrick Tolliver" <tolliver@tstar.net> wrote in message
news:G3DwEA.79E@lugnet.com...
Interesting.  I read _Splinter_ in something like the 4th or 5th • grade for the
first time, and I hadn't ever heard any of the above.  I like the • novel a lot,
for what it is... and if memory serves, there are things that are • directly
contradicted in movies after than book.

What were they? I read _Splinter_ not too long ago, and don't remember • any
thing that was directly contradicted.

Adrick



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  Re: next year
 
(...) Yeah, and Luke and Leia start to fall in love and stuff like that... which doesn't work to well with the whole Leia-is-Lukes-sister thing... 'cept in Alabama... ;) (ugh, please don't flame me Alabamans... I didn't really mean it.) -Bryan (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: next year
 
(...) Ok, let me clear this one up for you. In one of Tim Zahn's books, Luke finds out(from Mara Jade) that Vader's hand was cut off by Palpatine in punishment for his failure at the Death Star. That would have been before SOTME. In SOTME Vader's (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: next year
 
(...) What were they? I read _Splinter_ not too long ago, and don't remember any thing that was directly contradicted. Adrick (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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