Splinter of the Mind's Eye

01 · Summary

What the book is about

One of the earliest original Star Wars prose stories, sending Luke and Leia to Mimban in search of the Kaiburr crystal.

IDS catalogs it as Legends and places it in the Age of Rebellion era.

It belongs to the Early Expanded Universe publishing line.

The book is indexed for Adult readers in the Novel format.

02 · Publication file

Where it sits in Star Wars publishing

Splinter of the Mind's Eye was published in 1978 and is cataloged by IDS as a Adult novel in Legends continuity.

Its connection to Early Expanded Universe makes it part of a larger reading path rather than an isolated title.

03 · People

Major characters

The character list below comes from the IDS book record and is intended as a reading guide rather than a complete cast list.

04 · Places

Major locations and spatial context

Locations are indexed when the existing book record clearly identifies them. IDS connects book geography back to the wider archive so readers can move from a story to the worlds and social settings that shape it.

No places have been indexed for this title yet.

05 · Institutions

Organizations, traditions, and political systems

These links identify institutions or traditions that are clearly implicated by the current title, era, series, or summary. They are guides into the wider archive, not claims that each organization is equally central to every chapter.

06 · IDS lens

What this book can reveal

This book is especially useful for examining resistance, political legitimacy, postwar reconstruction, coalition-building, and the difficulty of turning insurgent movements into durable institutions.

The purpose of this lens is not to score the novel. It identifies social questions that the story makes easier to study and connects the book to the wider IDS archive.