CNN interviewed Star Wars author R.A. Salvatore:

R.A. Salvatore has seen the future. And he is not telling what is in it.

Salvatore, a fantasy writer best known for his DemonWars saga, is the author of the novelization of "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" (Ballantine/Del Rey).

To write the book based on the "Star Wars" movie, he got to have a look at several versions of the script -- and was entitled to pick George Lucas' brain about what's in store for Anakin Skywalker, Padme Amidala and the rest of the intergalactic gang.

"I had to hide my computer from my friends," Salvatore says half-jokingly in the flat New England cadences of his native Massachusetts.

The events that led to writing "Episode II" came quickly, the amiable Salvatore recalls in an interview from a book tour stop in Minneapolis.

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