The Fireside

It seems that Terry Brooks is hard at work, as well on track to finishing the 'main' Shannara series. Both of the net bit of my post comes from his site: "Books! Now there’s a happy subject. The new (final) Shannara series is going well in the writing stage. Book One is done, Book Two is being written. Still on schedule to publish late spring, early summer 2017-2020 to finish the series. Really, I will probably never finish writing Shannara books, only close off the ending so that there is a clear cycle between beginning in 1977 and ending in 2020. I can always find gaps in which to add new stories, both long and short. Hard to imagine not writing something in that world after 2020. But I don’t have to think about it now, anyway." " Releasing 2017 Book One of new Shannara quadrology (tentatively May 2017) A Knight of the Word (Cemetery Dance Edition, TBD) Releasing 2018 Book Two of new Shannara quadrology (tentatively August 2018) Ange...

As mentioned in a previous blog post (“Of Elfstones and Tolkien” I believe I titled it) I’m a newcomer to Terry Brooks and the main Shannara books (from Elfstones forward, timeline-wise). I have discovered and read an interview with Terry Brooks from a few years back when he was in Montreal. He’s going to end Shannara. His latest set of books, “The Defenders of Shannara” ( The High Druid’s Blade, The Darkling Child, and the most recent Sorcerer’s Daughter ) is meant to serve as a ‘pre-conclusion’ to the final trilogy which will end the entire Shannara saga. So Defenders will lead into, or be very closely connected to the final trilogy, would be my guess. As of that interview, the first of the final three books is scheduled to be published in 2017. That interview mentions august 2017, but on his website, Brook mentioned that the ‘target’ date will be May. I’m guessing on how well the writing goes. If it goes well? May or sooner. If not as well as he hoped? Possibly Aug...