Episode 7-9 books....

I was looking for the 9 books that made up the 3 trilogy's Lucas had origanally intended to do. I had heard that the books for 7-9 were already printed but I can't seem to find out which ones they are. Can anyone tell me the names of the 9 books, especially the last 3.
Thanks

 

there are no published books that correspond to episodes 7 - 9.

here are the other episodes in novel form:

Star Wars: A New Hope - by George Lucas
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - by Donald Glut
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - James Kahn

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - by Terry Brooks
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - by R. A. Salvatore
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - by Matthew Stover

 

Misled you have been.

I believe that Lucas has stated that he had outlines and story for that many films, but there's no books like you're looking for. Get into the EU if you want to explore the saga further.

http://boards.theforce.net/Literature/b10003/19131140/?39

 

As stated, there is no real Episode 7-9 in any form, even in note form. I do recall reading articles and interviews from the early 90's about Lucas collaborating relatively closely with Zahn to make The Thrawn Trilogy have the same feel and a similar storyline to what the sequel trilogy would have been like, back when one was still possible. Lucas wanted 7-9 to have a similar feel to the Original Trilogy, with a shadowy Emperor character and a more visible, maniacle Vader character. He also had plans for a mysterious "Other" (Who became Leia, but he still wanted the idea of another female Force-user to appear in some form in TTT) These characters were manifest in Thrawn, C'boath, and Mara Jade.

Lucas also wanted 7-9 (at one point, not in all of his concepts) to be about the Empire after the Republic returns, and how the heroes have to deal with rebuilding the galaxy and putting the pieces back together, all while dealing with the legacy of the Emperor. Then a villain from the past would appear to make trouble for the survivors of ROTJ. This idea was also present in The Thrawn Trilogy to some extent, and if you completely ignore all the material that comes after it, then the idea works pretty well. There was a rather extensive thread in the Saga forum recently about this. Lesse if I can dig it up.

Lucas also said at a (much) later date that the DE cycle had a feel more similar to what 7-9 would have been like, even though his input on those products was more limited than on The Thrawn Trilogy.

 

Hmmm....here's a challenge for you all...

Write opening crawls as if HTTE, DFR, and TLC were Episodes VII, VIII, and IX.

 

Dark Empire follows the would be 7-9, if the story wasn't condensed into the OT.

Time Tales is full of it. They really have no right to say that.
I wonder how much Zahn paid them to do that?

 

It's no surprise that he refused to acknoweldge DE. I could imagine what Zahn thought when GL distributed free DE copies to all his employees. "Hmph! Why couldn't he give them my books instead?".

 

In the original outline, the Emperor was not to die in Episode 6, but in Episode 9. Sine Lucas essentially condensed Episodes 6-9 into one movie, it would have been difficult for him to do them.

The original nine movie Star Wars saga outline circa 1980 (according to Gary Kurtz) is as follows:
EPISODE 1: Was to focus on the origins of the Jedi Knights and how they are initiated and trained
EPISODE 2: Introduction and development of Obi-Wan Kenobi
EPISODE 3: Introduction and life of Vader
EPISODE 4: There were seven different drafts of the film. At one point, they pursued buying the rights to Hidden Fortress because of the strong similarities. At one point, Luke was a female, Han was Luke's brother, Luke's father was the one in prison (interesting point for some debates) and the film featured 40 wookies
EPISODE 5: Once written, the screenplay of Empire is almost exactly what is seen on screen. The only cut scenes were those involving wampas in the rebel base (cut because of time and unsolved technical glitches) and about two minutes of Luke/Yoda Jedi training with no real dialog.
EPISODE 6: Leia was to be elected "Queen of her people" leaving her isolated. Han was to die. Luke confronted Vader and went on with his life alone. Leia was not to be Luke's sister.
EPISODE 7: Third trilogy was to focus on Luke's life as a Jedi, with very few details planned out.
EPISODE 8: Luke's sister (not Leia) appears from another part of the galaxy.
EPISODE 9: First appearance of the Emperor.