Source: i09
TERRY BROOKS SLATED FOR THREE NEW SHANNARA NOVELS
Terry Brooks has sold three new installments of his best-sellingShannara series to Del Rey Books. These new books in Brooks’ post-apocalyptic swords and sorcery series will pick up where his High Druid of Shannara trilogy left off.
The most recent book in the Shannara chronology was 2005’s Straken. Brook’s series began in 1977 with The Sword of Shannara, a massive hit that was the first fictional work to crack The New York Timestrade paperback bestseller list.
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Source: scifiwire
WHICH FANTASY NOVELIST GOT A FAN LETTER FROM BARACK OBAMA?
If you were hoping for Michael Moorcock or China Mieville, well, the president’s reading list doesn’t extend quite that far into hardcore fantasy or science fiction, but when you’re talking of a novel about strange animals shipwrecked on a lost island—one currently being made into a movie by Ang Lee—hey, we’re happy.
Novelist Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, revealed that he received a piece of fan mail from President Barack Obama, GalleyCat reported.
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I was a fan of Terry Brooks novels back in the day and I am very excited there are to be three new books in the Shannara series. Have you ever ready Terry Brooks?
What do you think of the Obama fan letter to novelist Yann Martel?
