[HPforGrownups] Re: What is Canon?

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 55921


--- Dan Delaney <Dionysos at Dionysia.org> wrote:

> Canon can also be writings that were commissioned
> and approved by the 
> author to be a part of his or her creation. Take the
> Star Wars saga, 
> for instance. Lucas writes the main stories and
> creates movies out of 
> them. But he doesn't consider himself a writer, so
> he hires 
> professional sci-fi novelists to write the novel
> versions of the 
> movies. He also approves other novels by other
> writers that expand on 
> the stories of the original Star Wars universe. All
> of those official 
> Star Wars novels are canonical for the Star Wars
> universe, because 
> Lucas himself (the creator of the Star Wars
> universe) allows them to be 
> official. 

Actually, despite them being licensed, I belive that
George Lucas himself has said the novels are non
canon.  With the possible exception of the ones based
on the movie.  But EU is not canon.  It's been much
contradicted by the movies.

Actually, I've never before run into a fan on the
Internet that thought EU was canon.  I do think he
said it wasn't, but I'm by no means positive.


Rebecca

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