Collecting The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara and The Wishsong of Shannara are the three hardest hardcovers to find in the history of the fantasy genre.Everything listed on this page is tentative but it is also what Terry has in mind at this very moment: Letters From Terry JHoliday 2009 AugMaHoliday 2007 JHoliday 2006 Holiday 2005 The Gypsy Morph – paperback (in stores) A Landover omnibus – books 1-3 (in stores) A Landover omnibus – books 4-5 (in stores) A Princess of Landover (in stores) The World of Shannara – Revised & Updated (in stores)… The website receives many questions about what he is publishing next, so this part of the website is devoted to the future-not only concerning the next new book but what Terry’s planning on doing over the next several years. He finishes a new book at the same time as the last one is being released, so he is always one book ahead of what the readers have in their hands. It is this work ethic that helps him publish a book every year. He begins writing at six o’clock every morning, and during those moments he is not writing, he has one foot in the story. What’s Next? erry is always working on a new writing project.Readers and writers of fantasy owe Terry Brooks much thanks. If other authors have surpassed him in some respects, then they have done so almost certainly thanks to his influence.
But I doubt whether anyone outside Tolkien himself has done more than Brooks to make and keep Fantasy relevant, readable, and sellable (the Del Reys are certainly in his debt!). Similar is the journey that Fantasy at large has taken since Rings.Īrguments can be made about other authors or books being superior to Brooks or Shannara. The story is darker, more personal, and more philosophically weighted than its predecessors. Finally, in Wishsong, Brooks is on his own. By the end of the book, the story is very much its own, though, and when we get to Elfstones, we see the author really stretching his wings, taking his story in new and very interesting directions. In Sword, we get a story that starts as a mirror image of The Lord of the Rings.
The Shannara series, especially the original trilogy, is a microcosm of the world of published Fantasy. (Let’s be honest, it still dwarfs almost anything anyone ever reads!) I was captivated, and I still am, two decades and a half-dozen or more readings later. At the age of 9 or so, my mother handed me a copy of The Sword of Shannara: a massive tome that dwarfed anything I’d read up to that point. Shannara was for me, and surely for many others about my age, the entrance to the world(s) of High Fantasy.
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