Star Wars Legends is a 317-book series with 317 released primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster, Geraldine Richelson, Brian Daley, Eleanor Ehrhardt, Larry Weinberg, Donald F. Glut, Drew Karpyshyn, Joan D. Vinge, James Kahn, Bonnie Bogart, STAR WARS, Ellen Weiss, Timothy Zahn, timothy-zahn, Hollace Davids, Paul Davids, Paul Davids, Kathy Tyers, Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton, Vonda N. McIntyre, Terry Brooks, Barbara Hambly, Nan Fischer, Nancy Richardson, 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, Rebecca Moesta, Daniel Keys Moran, Jerry Oltion, Michael A. Stackpole, Jim K. Thomas, John Whitman, Steve Perry, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Christopher Golden, William C. Dietz, Aaron Allston, John Peel, K.W. Jeter, Ryder Windham, Jude Watson, Patricia C. Wrede, David Levithan, Craig Carey, Patricia A. Jackson, Colin Reeder, Kerry Milliron, Bob Eggleton, R. A. Salvatore, Marc Cerasini, A.L. Singer, James Luceno, Monica Kulling, James Lucerno, Anthony Heald, Steven Barnes, MOLYICE, Greg Bear, Troy Denning, Michael Reaves, Greg Keyes, Andreas Brandhorst, Tim Lebbon, Terry Bisson, Matthew Woodring Stover, Elaine Cunningham, Walter Jon Williams, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jonathan Hales, Andreas Helweg, Sean Williams, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, W. Haden Blackman, Shane Dix, Elizabeth Hand, Karen Traviss, David Mattingly, David Sherman, Sean Stewart, Jane B. Mason, Sarah Stephens, Judy Blundell, Tracey West, Jake T. Forbes, Steele Filipek, Joe Schreiber, Sue Behrent, John Jackson Miller, Christie Golden, Alex Wheeler, Karen Miller, Paul S. Kemp, Wayne Lo, Various, Benjamin Harper, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Clare Hibbert, Wilfrid Lupano, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Jeff Grubb, Jason Fry, Martha Wells, James S. A. Corey, Jeffrey Brown, Matthew Stover, 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.