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''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Splinter_of_the_Mind%27s_Eye Splinter of the Mind's Eye]'' is a novel set in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. Written by [[Alan Dean Foster]] (who also ghost-wrote the novelization of ''[[A New Hope]]''), it is set chronologically between the events of ''[[A New Hope]]'' and ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
On their way to a conference, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia R2-D2 and C-3PO crash-land on a swamp planet named Mimban, which is crawling with Imperial stormtroopers, unpleasant natives and wildlife out to have them for dinner. In their bid to get off the planet they enlist the aid of an old, marginally Force-sensitive woman named Halla. Her aid has a price, though: She wants them to assist her in acquiring the fabled [[Amplifier Artifact|Kaiburr Crystal]]. They soon discover that they are in a race against Darth Vader who is out to claim the crystal for his own purposes. After putting Luke, Leia and the droids through a series of misadventures, the book climaxes with Luke and Leia dueling with Darth Vader for possession for the crystal.
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* [[As You Know]]: Used word for word when Luke in the guise of a miner asks a stormtrooper about the architecture on that world. Subverted, though - the stormtrooper believes Luke knows, but like the readers, he doesn't. That's why he asked.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Leia. From her harsh character to her {{spoiler|attempt to kill Vader}}, she spends ninety percent of the time very subtly getting Luke to be a hero... by playing the [[Anti-Hero]]. The ''psychotic'' [[Anti-Hero]]. This is at least partly because she's a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] from what happened on the Death Star...when, after Luke says or does something to reassure her, she starts explaining herself, only to stop because she's ''too afraid of her own memories to talk about them''.
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* [[Badass]]: Leia, again. She can't even verbalize her multiple traumas, yet faces the [[Complete Monster]] who she associates with every single one...and just plain refuses to stop fighting.
** Halla, since by Force-sensitive standards, she's horrifyingly pathetic, yet still acts as if she were a Jedi Master and refuses to be fazed by any danger right up until the last scene.
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* [[Fat Bastard]]: Grammel.
{{quote|[...] he stood to reveal a modest paunch curving gently from beneath his sternum [[Purple Prose|like a frozen waterfall of suet]], to crash and tumble [[Squick|somewhere below the waistline]] in a jumble of uniform.}}
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Vader opts to [[You Have Failed Me...|punish]] Grammel in this manner with his lightsaber, rather than strangling him to death with the Force.
* [[Incest Subtext]]: Not intentional. When it was written, it was assumed that our heroes were not related and would hook up after long [[Will They or Won't They?]]. With that in mind, there is a ''lot'' of chemistry, informing virtually every interaction between them.
{{quote|The Princess grew aware of how tightly she was clinging to him. Their proximity engendered a wash of confused emotion. It would be proper to disengage, to move away a little. Proper, but not nearly so satisfying.}}
** This is probably due to Leia's [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|many psychological issues]]. Victims of PTSD often find themselves caught between the natural urge to cry themselves out on someone's shoulder, since humans are very physical and social animals, and their own psychological reactions. Luke, being too young to realize what she's doing, just sees a hot chick; Leia is struggling to find comfort while being unable to even verbalize her memories. Add in the Force, which according to at least Fanon is trying to let Luke and Leia know they're twins, and it's not surprising she's 'confused'.
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{{quote|"I saw my whole world, several million people, destroyed," she responded with chilling matter-of-factness. "Nothing mankind does surprises me anymore. [...] We have our devils and our angels, Luke. You have to be ready to handle both." Turns into [[Nightmare Fuel]] for Leia when Luke tries to get her to open up and talk about what happened...and then for the ''reader'', who realizes that in a movie where millions of people died on-screen, [[A Fate Worse Than Death|whatever happened to Leia while she was tortured was too horrible for her to even think about]].}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Luke. Leia may have a good excuse, but she's an unrepentant [[Jerkass]] in this novel, and doesn't get much better {{spoiler|even when she dies}}.
** Though in some ways, Leia is on the receiving end of a lot of
* [[No Name Given]]: The book contains one scene narrated from the perspective of a doctor who treats Grammel's wounds and another from the perspective of an Imperial soldier. Both characters remained unnamed within the book, but the former was later [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sena_Pakkallo given a name] in a sourcebook for West End Games' ''Star Wars'' roleplaying game.
* [[Purple Prose]]: From time to time.
{{quote|"Besides, it takes many thousands of years of advanced technological development for a society to reduce honor to an abstract moral truism devoid of real meaning."}}
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