Star Wars Legends is a 388-book series with 388 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, Eleanor Ehrhardt, Brian Daley, Donald F. Glut, Patricia Wynne, Larry Weinberg, Drew Karpyshyn, Joan D. Vinge, STAR WARS, Bonnie Bogart, James Kahn, Ellen Weiss, Timothy Zahn, Hollace Davids, Paul Davids, timothy-zahn, Kathy Tyers, Paul Davids, Kevin J. Anderson, Vonda N. McIntyre, Dave Wolverton, Terry Brooks, Barbara Hambly, Rebecca Moesta, Roger MacBride Allen, 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, Daniel Keys Moran, Jerry Oltion, Michael A. Stackpole, Nan Fischer, Nancy Richardson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jim K. Thomas, Christopher Golden, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Steve Perry, John Whitman, William C. Dietz, Ryder Windham, J.J. Gardner, Aaron Allston, K.W. Jeter, John Peel, Craig Carey, Patricia A. Jackson, R. A. Salvatore, Kerry Milliron, Bob Eggleton, Marc Cerasini, Jude Watson, Colin Reeder, David Levithan, Patricia C. Wrede, Steven Barnes, Anthony Heald, A.L. Singer, James Lucerno, MOLYICE, Greg Bear, Monica Kulling, Tim Lebbon, Greg Keyes, Michael Reaves, Troy Denning, Andreas Brandhorst, Elaine Cunningham, Walter Jon Williams, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jonathan Hales, Matthew Woodring Stover, Terry Bisson, Andreas Helweg, Sean Williams, Shane Dix, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, W. Haden Blackman, Elizabeth Hand, David Sherman, Sean Stewart, David Mattingly, Karen Traviss, Jane B. Mason, Sarah Stephens, Judy Blundell, Simon Beecroft, Karen Miller, Jake T. Forbes, Tracey West, Steele Filipek, John Jackson Miller, Alex Wheeler, Joe Schreiber, Sue Behrent, Christie Golden, Wayne Lo, Jason Fry, Various, Paul S. Kemp, Benjamin Harper, Clare Hibbert, Rob Valois, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Wilfrid Lupano, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Jeff Grubb, 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.