Star Wars Legends is a 316-book series with 316 released primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster, Geraldine Richelson, Eleanor Ehrhardt, Brian Daley, Larry Weinberg, Donald F. Glut, Drew Karpyshyn, James Kahn, Bonnie Bogart, Joan D. Vinge, STAR WARS, Ellen Weiss, Timothy Zahn, Hollace Davids, Paul Davids, timothy-zahn, Paul Davids, Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton, Vonda N. McIntyre, Kathy Tyers, Barbara Hambly, 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, Nan Fischer, Nancy Richardson, Michael A. Stackpole, Terry Brooks, Christopher Golden, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Steve Perry, Jim K. Thomas, John Whitman, William C. Dietz, K.W. Jeter, John Peel, Aaron Allston, Jude Watson, Kerry Milliron, Bob Eggleton, Craig Carey, Patricia A. Jackson, Patricia C. Wrede, Marc Cerasini, Colin Reeder, Ryder Windham, R. A. Salvatore, David Levithan, A.L. Singer, James Luceno, Monica Kulling, James Lucerno, Anthony Heald, Steven Barnes, Greg Bear, MOLYICE, Troy Denning, Greg Keyes, Tim Lebbon, Andreas Brandhorst, Michael Reaves, Elaine Cunningham, Andreas Helweg, Walter Jon Williams, Matthew Woodring Stover, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jonathan Hales, Terry Bisson, Sean Williams, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, W. Haden Blackman, Elizabeth Hand, Shane Dix, David Sherman, Karen Traviss, David Mattingly, Sean Stewart, Jane B. Mason, Sarah Stephens, Judy Blundell, Tracey West, Jake T. Forbes, Steele Filipek, Sue Behrent, Alex Wheeler, Joe Schreiber, John Jackson Miller, Christie Golden, Various, Paul S. Kemp, Wayne Lo, Karen Miller, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Clare Hibbert, Benjamin Harper, 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.