Shannara, Star Wars and All That
- - September 16th, 2008
You say ‘to-MAY-to’ and I say ‘to-MAH-to’,
You say ‘shu-NAR-a’ and I say ‘SHAN-uh-ra’,
‘shu-NAR-a’ . . . ‘SHAN-uh-ra’,
‘shu-NAR-a’ . . . ‘SHAN-uh-ra’,
Let’s call the whole thing Geekspeak. . .
Behold! The Gods of Geek have seen fit to bestow upon me a brand new, super-shiny iPhone, and – lo! – I have become addicted to podcasts.
Hmm. So what does the above mock-portentous gibberish have to do with the ill-conceived George and Ira Gershwin pastiche that opened this blog post? I’m glad you asked! This morning on the train in to work, I passed the time standing up, plotting horrible deaths for the train company executives who can’t organise enough seats for paying customers listening to Terry Brooks discussing his career on Rick Kleffel’s excellent Agony Column podcast.
This particular episode is a ‘cast of Geekspeak, Santa Cruz public radio station KUSP’s live weekly show. Terry talks about how he got started as a writer, his Shannara series (the latest volume, The Gypsy Morph, is available now), Star Wars, writing the Episode One tie-in and a whole lot more.
Check it out
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Tags: Terry Brooks
Tara Weinberrg
September 16, 2008
at 8:17 pm
my favourite author
loving the Orbit covers of the Terry Brooks novels.
The new covers that have been coming out for the current series are brilliant
well done orbit
Darren Nash
September 17, 2008
at 11:16 am
Thanks, Tara, much appreciated. We do our best to make sure that all of our covers reflect the feel of the story and entice readers to pick the books up – of course it always helps to have words like ‘Terry Brooks’ on the cover!