:If Hampsey's book had broken publishing records and introduced catchphrases like "Use the Force" to the language and been so influential that a decade after his last one his next one in the series had record numbers of people lining up around the block to be the first to get a look at the next  then it would certainly be encyclopedic.  (Even if it was banal and for eight-year-olds.  Stupid American eight-year-olds at that.)