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Originally Posted by Hateyou  Speaking of technology, I love the Shannara world. Does he ever write about the "modern civilization" that killed itself off? It was totally pimp reading about 'fantasy' characters wandering around destroyed skyscrapers wondering what they were. |
Yea, the Word/Void series --
Running with the Demon (1997)
A Knight of the Word (1998)
Angel Fire East (1999)
-- is all about the world as it was long before all the Shannara stuff, and how it fell apart. I'm really liking it so far (still on the first one).
Then there's the new series, Genesis of Shannara, which picks up at the end of Word/Void and is going to eventually explain how our world evolved into Shannara (or at least that's how I understood the blurb). I started reading Armageddon's Children before realizing that I had never actually read the stuff before it, and had to run back to the library to swap. The second part is due out in September.
One thing I really, really like about Brooks is the man is a goddamn machine when it comes to writing. He has been putting out one book a year for as long as I can remember, so there's never any painfully long waiting for the next installment and the stories don't seem to suffer for it or feel rushed at all.