Terry Brooks
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Oct 13, 2026
Rachel ReddHOST
Yeah.
Delilah S. DawsonGUEST
I'm, uh, working on the next, uh, Shanara book for Terry Brooks, and I kind of wasn't sure what happened in the next scene, so I cued up my earbuds and just went for my Terminator walk and got the answer.
Rachel ReddHOST
Yeah.
Rachel ReddHOST
Do you just, do you listen to music when you're walking? Is that, or-
56 MINS LATER
Rachel ReddHOST
Do we have more? It s- it sounded like there are more horror novellas potentially coming, and then you're also working in something else.
Rachel ReddHOST
You, you, you mentioned, so tell us about it.
Delilah S. DawsonGUEST
Right now I am, uh, writing the next Shanara book for Terry Brooks.
Delilah S. DawsonGUEST
We just had Brona come out in the First Kingdoms of Shanara, and so I'm writing the next-
ChrisPANELIST
But then you're going to catch shrapnel like under your throat.
ChrisPANELIST
It's the arrow out of left field and like a Terry Brooks.
ChrisPANELIST
Is that the right? Yeah, I think it is.
TravisPANELIST
or the drone out of the clear blue in the modern
Josh TeessmaHOST
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome to Brooks' Books, the show where we read the works of Terry Brooks in publication order.
Josh TeessmaHOST
Today we're talking about the entire story of Indomitable, the longer than a short story, maybe shorter than a novella thing, um, that's published by Terry Brooks in 2003.
Josh TeessmaHOST
I'm your host, Josh Teessma, and I am a Mwelret.
speaker_1VOICE_ACTOR
Uh, um, Mwelret, yes.
speaker_3VOICE_ACTOR
This is a weird title.
speaker_3VOICE_ACTOR
What is that?
speaker_2VOICE_ACTOR
Uh, chapter 52 is, um, Terry Brooks' eighth rule of writing.
speaker_2VOICE_ACTOR
[laughs]
speaker_3HOST
And publishers rushed to manufacture it.
speaker_2HOST
Leading to Terry Brooks' Shannara, the creation of Dungeons & Dragons, and the carving out of an entire bookstore aisle that simply did not exist beforehand.
speaker_2HOST
Sales are now estimated past 150 million copies.
speaker_3HOST
But as the text wisely points out, seeds are not automatically the greatest trees.
speaker_3HOST
They dominate the conversation even during the months when they don't have a new book on the shelf And then you add to that the monumental returns.
speaker_3HOST
I mean, we had Terry Brooks coming back to the Shannara universe.
speaker_4HOST
Which was huge.
speaker_3HOST
Huge.
speaker_3HOST
What's his trinity?
speaker_2HOST
He recommends Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry and Terry Brooks' Shannara series, arguing that combining those two specific epics with The Lord of the Rings creates the ultimate definitive foundational experience.
speaker_3HOST
We also get a drive-by recommendation from a commenter named Jonathan, who briefly materializes just to drop the title Dragonlance: Time of Avatars into the discussion before vanishing completely.
speaker_2HOST
I love that.
Ian LevensteinHOST
Mm hmm.
Kris NaudusPANELIST
There are like events because I saw one of them is the Terry Brooks signing is now paid.
Kris NaudusPANELIST
I mean, granted, autographs have always been like a thing paying for the autograph or anything.
Kris NaudusPANELIST
But just I think it's also part of the books.
Kris NaudusPANELIST
The there's an event, a Terry Brooks event that might be separately ticketed.
Kris NaudusPANELIST
The one that got me and I was mad when I saw it was separate ticketed was the there's an interview with the vampire 50th anniversary panel.
Ian LevensteinHOST
Yeah.
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Any door, the right support.
speaker_3HOST
We are talking about the titular weapon of Terry Brooks' classic, The Sword of Shannara.
speaker_2HOST
The Sword of Shannara represents a completely different psychological register of fantasy.
speaker_2HOST
It was forged with a magical artifact called the Ailt Druin Medallion, permanently embedded in its hilt, and its primary function is not to cut flesh or cleave armor or even dispel dark magic.
speaker_3HOST
But you cannot hide from this sword, and more importantly, you cannot hide the sword from yourself.
speaker_3HOST
It forces you to look in the mirror without the lights dimmed.
speaker_2HOST
Terry Brooks was heavily obviously influenced by Tolkien, and the first Shannara book wears that influence openly on its sleeve.
speaker_2HOST
The hero's journey feels very familiar to The Lord of the Rings.
Matt WarnockGUEST
the Hobbit I have read parts of the Hobbit when I was a kid I remember my dad reading it to us I have on my shelves over here somewhere the it's this beautiful printed edition of the Hobbit with all the it's so full of art and it's all from the Rankin Bass animated production I mean I've seen the movies but that's one I haven't gotten around to yet I've read, um, plenty of, uh, stuff that's inspired by the Lord of the Rings.
Matt WarnockGUEST
So like the first big fantasy series that I consumed was the Terry Brooks Shannara series.
Matt WarnockGUEST
Yes.
WaltHOST
Yes.
Matt WarnockGUEST
So I, I think I read at least nine of those books.
Matt WarnockGUEST
Um, But, but yeah, you know, fantasy is so there's so many different flavors of it.
Matt WarnockGUEST
Um, the, the Weiss and Hickman dragon Lance novels, the Terry Brooks books.
Matt WarnockGUEST
Um, but then something like, uh, gosh, what's his name? The Dresden files.
Eric ClaytonGUEST
A big Star Trek guy, too.
Eric ClaytonGUEST
And probably my first big, like, fantasy introduction was The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, who was kind of a master of high fantasy in the kind of same vein as Tolkien.
Eric ClaytonGUEST
My grandmother gave me that book back in third grade.
Eric ClaytonGUEST
It was very foundational to my kind of fantastical readings ever since.
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