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TOM MERRITT: Coming up, how to
go from being an attorney to
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the bestselling fantasy
author ever.
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VERONICA BELMONT: It's our
guide to Terry Brooks,
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TOM MERRITT: Are you coming
down with something?
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VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah.
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VERONICA BELMONT:
Hey, everyone.
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Welcome to the "Sword and
Laser." I'm Veronica Belmont.
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TOM MERRITT: And I'm
Tom Merritt.
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VERONICA BELMONT: And this is
our guide to authors show,
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where each week we bring up a
brand new author and introduce
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you to them, and then we ask
them your questions and some
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of our own as well.
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TOM MERRITT: Yep.
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We're very excited because this
week, it's our guide to
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VERONICA BELMONT: Now known as
the man behind 23 "New York
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Times" best sellers, Terry
Brooks was previously known as
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Terry Brooks, Esquire, a
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practicing attorney in Illinois.
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A writing hobbyist since
childhood, Brooks used what
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free time he had from being an
attorney to pen fantasy works,
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composing his debut novel, "The
Sword of Shannara" while
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still practicing law.
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TOM MERRITT: The first fantasy
novel to ever appear on the
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"New York Times" bestseller
list, of "The Sword of
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Shannara" sat atop the list for
more than five months as
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the public flocked to the
story of Shea and Flick
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Ohmsford's quest to retrieve
the Sword of Shannara and
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defeat the warlock lord.
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Brooks followed with "The
Elfstones of Shannara" in 1982
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and "The Wishsongs of Shannara"
in 1985, which
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followed the adventures of the
next two generations of the
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Ohms ford family, and were
both best sellers
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in their own right.
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VERONICA BELMONT: Brooks then
began his six-novel Landover
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series, which followed the
adventures of a former trial
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lawyer, Ben Holiday, through
the kingdom of Landover.
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Holiday purchased the magical
kingdom during a deep
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depression, and when the land
turned out to be real, he
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assumed the throne and worked
to restore the realm to its
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former splendor.
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TOM MERRITT: Aside from the
Landover series, the rest of
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Brooks' books have been set
across a long history of the
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Shannara universe.
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While all of the Shannara works
adhere to a consistent
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universe and timeline, Brooks
doesn't intend the series to
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be read in chronological
order.
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He suggests reading in
publication order to avoid
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