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Armageddon's Children
The Genesis of Shannara, Book 1
by Terry Brooks
Paperback, Jul 2007,
416 pages.
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We don't tend to recommend much sci-fi/fantasy at BookBrowse. Partially because the sci-fi/fantasy genre covers such a wide variety of writing that BookBrowse simply can't do it justice, partly because relatively few BookBrowse visitors say that they read sci-fi, and partly because there's relatively little sci-fi/fantasy that seems good enough to warrant inclusion. Terry Brooks is one writer who continuously delivers the goods - with at least 24 novels to his name (see full bibliography at fantasticfiction), most, if not all, of which have been bestsellers, he continues to find new directions and new worlds in which to express his talents.

Armageddon's Children
, the first in a new series (that picks up where his The Word and The Void trilogy ended, but can be read independently), is set in a near-future version of the USA, with a...
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Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.

A writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, westerns, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. That moment changed Terry's writing career forever, because in Tolkien's great work...
This review was originally published in October 2006, and has been updated for the July 2007 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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