title: Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary - The Ultimate Guide to Characters and Creatures from the Entire Star Wars Saga
author:  David West Reynolds 
description: "For SW fanboys, The Complete Visual Dictionary is a little slice of heaven. Highly recommended." -- <i>Library Journal</i>
zlib_text: Splinter Of The Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster **Alan Dean Foster**
  
   **Splinter Of The Mind's Eye**
  
  Based on the characters and situations created by George Lucas Copyright ©
  1978 by The Star Wars Corporation
  
  ISBN 0-345-29659-1
  
  Cover art by Ralph McQuarrie
  
  For Dad & Mom Oxley, Louis & Ellie; with all my love, which would fill several
  universes.
  
  **I**
  
  HOW beautiful was the universe, Luke thought. How beautifully flowing,
  glorious and aglow like the robe of a queen. Ice-black clean in its emptiness
  and solitude, so unlike the motley collage of spinning dust motes men called
  their worlds, where the human bacteria throve and multiplied and slaughtered
  one another. All so that one might say he stood a little higher than his
  fellows.
  
  In depressed moments he felt sure there was no really happy living matter on
  any of those worlds.
  
  Only a plethora of destructive human diseases which fought and raged
  constantly against one another, a sequence of cancerous civilizations which
  fed on its