It is a direct sequel to the High Druid set of books, and it’s about a topic that has been discussed ever since I wrote Elfstones back in the day - 1982 or whatever it was when it was published - about the Elfstones themselves, which were forged in the ancient world of Faerie before humans, and nobody knows what happened to them, and somebody is always saying, “What happened to the other Elfstones? The only ones that survived are these blue Elfstones, and we’ve never heard anything more.” So, after not having an answer for that for the better part of 30 years, I thought maybe I’d come up with one, and that’s what this book is about. It’s in the future of the Shannara world, not in the prehistory where I have been working. Terry Brooks: This is the first in a trilogy that I have been thinking about for quite a bit of time. Wired: Tell us about your new novel, The Wards of Faerie. Read our complete interview with Terry Brooks below, or listen to the interview in Episode 67 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (above), which also features a discussion between hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley and guest geek Matt London about magic items in fantasy, mythology and games.Įpic fantasy novel The Wards of Faerie, the first entry in Terry Brooks’ The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy, follows the search for the lost Elfstones of Faerie. Now, the minute I say this I will, but up to this point, no.” “I have a really good reading audience,” says Brooks, “and I’ve never, ever had a problem with them.
It was very gangland-like.”īut as strange as publishing can sometimes be, Brooks has nothing but good things to say about his readers. “One car left and then the other came up. “I was taken to a parking lot in an industrial area and dropped,” says Brooks in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
And Brooks once found himself caught between feuding bookstores who refused to transport him from one to the other. His first editor, Lester Del Rey, talked to stuffed animals, constantly lied about his background, and sometimes introduced himself as “Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heartcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Uerdes” (his real name was Leonard Knapp).
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