Shannara
Sign in to saveShannara is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and concluding with The Last Druid which was released in October 2020; there is also a prequel, First King of Shannara. The series blends magic and primitive technology and is set in the Four Lands, which are identified as Earth long after civilization was destroyed in a chemical and nuclear holocaust called the Great Wars. By the time of the prequel First King of Shannara, the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science.
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Setting
- Characters
- Important places
- Novels
- ''Word & Void''
- ''The Genesis of Shannara''
- ''Legends of Shannara''
- ''The First Druids of Shannara''
- ''First King of Shannara''
- ''The Sword of Shannara''
- ''The Heritage of Shannara''
- ''The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara''
- ''High Druid of Shannara''
- ''The Dark Legacy of Shannara''
- ''The Defenders of Shannara''
- ''The Fall of Shannara''
- Short stories
- Chronology
- Television and film rights
- See also
- References
- External links
Shannara is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and concluding with The Last Druid which was released in October 2020; there is also a prequel, First King of Shannara. The series blends magic and primitive technology and is set in the Four Lands, which are identified as Earth long after civilization was destroyed in a chemical and nuclear holocaust called the Great Wars. By the time of the prequel First King of Shannara, the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science.
In March 2025, Brooks announced his semi-retirement and that Delilah S. Dawson would be taking on the authorship of his Shannara legendarium going forward.
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