Star Wars Legends is a 391-book series with 391 released primary works first released in 1653 with contributions by James Luceno, Ron Marz, Jan Duursema, Rick Magyar, Drew Struzan, Nicholas Culpeper, Charles Dickens, George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster, Geraldine Richelson, Brian Daley, Eleanor Ehrhardt, Donald F. Glut, Larry Weinberg, Patricia Wynne, Drew Karpyshyn, STAR WARS, Joan D. Vinge, James Kahn, Bonnie Bogart, Ellen Weiss, Timothy Zahn, Paul Davids, Hollace Davids, timothy-zahn, Kathy Tyers, Paul Davids, Dave Wolverton, Vonda N. McIntyre, Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Tom Veitch, Martha Veitch, M. Shayne Bell, David Bischoff, A.C. Crispin, Kenneth C. Flint, Barbara Hambly, Rebecca Moesta, Daniel Keys Moran, Jerry Oltion, Terry Brooks, Roger MacBride Allen, Michael A. Stackpole, Nan Fischer, Nancy Richardson, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Christopher Golden, Steve Perry, Jim K. Thomas, John Whitman, Ryder Windham, William C. Dietz, J.J. Gardner, Aaron Allston, John Peel, K.W. Jeter, Jude Watson, Kerry Milliron, Bob Eggleton, Patricia C. Wrede, Craig Carey, Patricia A. Jackson, Marc Cerasini, David Levithan, Colin Reeder, R. A. Salvatore, Anthony Heald, A.L. Singer, James Lucerno, Monica Kulling, Steven Barnes, Greg Bear, MOLYICE, Greg Keyes, Troy Denning, Tim Lebbon, Michael Reaves, Andreas Brandhorst, Elaine Cunningham, Andreas Helweg, Walter Jon Williams, Terry Bisson, Matthew Woodring Stover, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jonathan Hales, Sean Williams, Shane Dix, Elizabeth Hand, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, W. Haden Blackman, Karen Traviss, David Mattingly, Sean Stewart, David Sherman, Jane B. Mason, Sarah Stephens, Simon Beecroft, Judy Blundell, Tracey West, Jake T. Forbes, Karen Miller, Steele Filipek, Sue Behrent, Alex Wheeler, Joe Schreiber, John Jackson Miller, Christie Golden, Various, Jason Fry, Paul S. Kemp, Wayne Lo, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Clare Hibbert, Benjamin Harper, Rob Valois, Jeff Grubb, Wilfrid Lupano, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Martha Wells, James S. A. Corey, Jeffrey Brown, John Ostrander, David J. Williams, Mark S. Williams, Ari Marmell, Alexander Freed, and L. Neil Smith.
Star Wars Legends, formerly known as the Expanded Universe (abbreviated EU), encompasses every one of the licensed and background stories of the Star Wars universe, outside of the original six Star Wars films produced by George Lucas and certain other material created before April 25, 2014, excluding the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
It is derived from and includes most official Star Wars books, comic books, video games, spin-off films, television series, toys, and other media created before that date. This material expands and continues the stories told in the films, taking place anywhere from over 36,000 years before The Phantom Menace to 136 years after Return of the Jedi.