History Creator / BrianDaley

Brian Daley (1947 - 1996) was an American science fiction writer.

Daley also did film and television tie-in work, including the novelization of ''Film/{{Tron}}''. He was one of the first authors to work in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', writing a trilogy of novels featuring the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca before they met Luke Skywalker (in which he foreshadows the ''Millenium Falcon'' flying through a chasm sideways before ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and droid armies ''long'' before the prequels). He also wrote all the scripts for the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas Star Wars radio adaptation]]. He was also story editor and producer on ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOftheGalaxyRangers'' with the Mandells and Christopher Rowley, which was heavily influenced by the early ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOftheGalaxyRangers'' (James Luceno also wrote for the series)

Daley also did film and television tie-in work, including the novelization of ''Film/{{Tron}}''. He was one of the first authors to work in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', writing a trilogy of novels featuring the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca before they met Luke Skywalker (in which he foreshadows the ''Millenium Falcon'' flying through a chasm sideways before ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and droid armies ''long'' before the prequels). He also wrote all the scripts for the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas Star Wars radio adaptation]]. He was also story editor and producer on ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOftheGalaxyRangers'' with the Mandells and Christopher Rowley, which was heavily influenced by the early 'Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''

Daley also did film and television tie-in work, including the novelization of ''Film/{{Tron}}''. He was one of the first authors to work in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', writing a trilogy of novels featuring the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca before they met Luke Skywalker (in which he foreshadows the ''Millenium Falcon'' flying through a chasm sideways before ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and droid armies ''long'' before the prequels). He also wrote all the scripts for the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas Star Wars radio adaptation]].

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: ''Han Solo's Revenge'' has a scene where Han (who is an experienced gunman) deliberately removes the trigger guard from his weapon. He was heading into a hazardous situation where he might need his pistol and would need environmental gear... but the glove of the environment suit was so thick that his finger would not fit inside the trigger guard.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Corporate Sector Riot Gun in ''Han Solo at Star's End''. It can fire a constant stream of energy (used for mowing down a crowd as "crowd control") that can clear a room of combatants in a hurry. However, it has very poor aiming characteristics, as Han Solo found out when trying to shoot at [=ESPOs=] using its single shot mode. It can only hit effectively on "constant fire" which dramatically increases the chances of friendly casualties in a pitched battle.

* BerserkButton: Han Solo doesn't react well to those who mistreat his ship or his friends. And, if Chewie is in danger, Han will flat out murder anyone who tries to keep him from going to his partner's aid.
* BluffingTheMurderer: In ''Han Solo at Star's End''. While ferrying a group of people to find the top-secret prison called Star's End, Han discovers the leader of the mission dead and the data pad containing the prison's secret location destroyed. After he locks up the others while he tries to sort things out he discovers that the dead leader had scratched the location into the table he was found dead on. Han then tells everyone to calculate a hyperspace jump to the correct star system but he deliberately gives everyone the wrong planet. He then outs the killer as the one who corrected his calculations by using the right planet.
* CallForward: At the end of the third book in the Han Solo trilogy, Han and Chewie--broke as usual--decide to convince Jabba the Hutt to hire them for another Kessel Run, with the implication that this is the job-gone-wrong for which Jabba has put a price on their heads in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* CargoCult: ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy'' featured a group of cargo cultists who were the descendants of the crew of the treasure-laden starship of an ancient warlord; they lived on a backwater planet for generations, maintaining sacred "landing fields" complete with mock-ups of spaceships and ritualized "communications procedures".
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy''.
* CovertDistressCode: In ''Han Solo's Revenge'', when Han is being marched back to the Falcon at gunpoint, he is warned to not make any suspicious moves or attempt to signal to Chewbacca, who is waiting in the Falcon. However, not attempting to signal Chewbacca ''is'' his covert distress code, since if all had been well he would have given an "all clear" signal. Chewbacca is waiting for him to give the all-clear signal, and deploys the ship's guns when he doesn't get it.
* CripplingTheCompetition: In ''Han Solo's Revenge'', Han gets roped into a formal duel against the notorious gunslinger Gallandro. He conspires to stun both of their right hands; this forces Gallandro to concede since Solo is ambidextrous and Gallandro isn't.
* CryoPrison: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', Star's End prison kept thousands of prisoners the Corporate Sector Authority found inconvenient in stasis, including Chewie.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: In ''Han Solo's Revenge'', Han is facing the one man he's ever met who's a quicker draw than him, so avoids a duel by shocking both their right arms into useless paralysis; the gunman is forced to retreat, because Han is ambidextrous.
* FrictionlessReentry: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', the Millennium Falcon uses its shields to offset the heat of entering the atmosphere of Duroon.
* GoodOldRobot: Bollux in the Han Solo Adventures.

* NotSoDifferent: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', [[spoiler:Torm]] uses this excuse when trying to bargain with Han for his life. [[ThrownOutTheAirlock Han expresses his disagreement with him]].
* OutOfCharacterAlert: In ''Han Solo's Revenge''. When Han and Chewie were to make a smuggling drop, if during the meeting Han did ''not'' try and signal Chewie (who was overseeing the proceedings back in the cockpit of the Falcon) then something had gone wrong with the drop.

* QuickDraw: All three of Brian Daley's Solo novels feature Han in quick draw situations. In ''Han Solo at Star's End'' and ''Han Solo's Revenge'', [[spoiler:Han uses trickery and avoids a true fight against, respectively, Uul Rha Shan and Gallandro]]. In ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy'', [[spoiler:Han actually does draw against Gallandro, and loses, getting wounded. Shortly thereafter, Gallandro is outdrawn... by automated laser beams]].
* RefugeInAudacity: Han's very existence is built on this.

* ShockCollar: In ''Han Solo's Revenge'', the Lurrian slaves captured by Magg and Zlarb are chained together, the collars acting as Shock Collars: the slavers can hit the whole string at once in an emergency.
* ShowdownAtHighNoon: In ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy'', Han faces down legendary Gunslinger Gallandro. The two of them had been working together until Gallandro decides it's time for a showdown. [[spoiler:Gallandro wins the quick draw and wounds Han, but the shooting activates a no-weapons system and Gallandro gets vaporized by lasers]].

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', Han determines that one of the people on his ship is TheMole. The traitor flees, hoping to find a place on the Falcon where he can hole up, but stumbles into the airlock instead. Once he gets the information he needs, Han remarks that it's just as well he stumbled into the airlock since he would've ended up there anyway, and opens the exterior airlock.
* TheTrickster: Han Solo, to a degree. In the Brian Daley novels he pulls a wide array of tricks, with a playfulness that nicely offsets his grimmer, mercenary side.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy'' involves Han and Chewie getting involved with a bunch of treasure-hunters looking for the lost treasure of Xim the Despot, a pre-Republic warlord who once ruled a mighty empire and reputedly left behind an immense (but possibly mythical) treasure. They wind up finding the "treasure", but it turns out to be a large stockpile of stuff that was vital and hard-to-find strategic war supplies back in Xim's day, but has long since become obsolete or common as dirt.

* FrictionlessReenty: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', the Millennium Falcon uses its shields to offset the heat of entering the atmosphere of Duroon.

* CripplingTheCompetition: In the ''Han Solo Adventures'', Han gets roped into a formal duel against the notorious gunslinger Gallandro. He conspires to stun both of their right hands; this forces Gallandro to concede since Solo is ambidextrous and Gallandro isn't.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', a turncoat is blown out an airlock while the ship is in hyperspace. The victim's body is instantly and utterly destroyed.

* RefugeInAudactiy: Han's very existence is built on this.

Daley also did film and television tie-in work, including the novelization of ''Film/{{Tron}}''. He was one of the first authors to work in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', writing a trilogy of novels featuring the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca before they met Luke Skywalker (in which he forshadows the ''Millenium Falcon'' flying through a chasm sideways before ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and droid armies ''long'' before the prequels). He also wrote all the scripts for the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas Star Wars radio adaptation]].

!!Other wWorks by Brian Daley provide examples of:

!!Works by Brian Daley provide examples of:

* MagicVersusScience: In the stand-alone novel ''A Tapestry of Magics'', it is mentioned that technology tends to be unreliable the closer one gets to the "Singularity" (the center of the multiverse). Also present with the Force in the ''Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas''.

* MagicVersusScience: In the stand-alone novel ''A Tapestry of Magics'', it is mentioned that technology tends to be unreliable the closer one gets to the "Singularity" (the center of the multiverse).

Daley also did film and television tie-in work, including the novelization of ''Film/{{Tron}}''. He was one of the first authors to work in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', writing a trilogy of novels featuring the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca before they met Luke Skywalker. He also wrote all the scripts for the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas Star Wars radio adaptation]].

Daley was one of the first authors to work in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', writing a trilogy of novels featuring the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca before they met Luke Skywalker. He also wrote all the scripts for the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas Star Wars radio adaptation]].