Grasping for the Wind

Del Rey Interview with Terry Brooks

Del Rey has posted an interview with Terry Brooks about his new book, The Elves of Cintra. Or watch the interview on the previous book in the series, Armegeddon's Children.

Best Question:

Q: Genesis of Shannara joins the Shannara universe to that of your Knight of the Word series and shows how the world of the Shannara books came to be, born out of the ruins of our world, in a near future where technology has run amuck to produce the cataclysmic social and environmental conditions that allow magic to return to prominence. It seems there is a cyclical process at work in your fictional universe, where magic gives way to science, which then gives way to magic again. Is this vision based on the naturally recurring cycles of our world and the ways in which technology has put the environment at risk?

TB: It is. In part, at least. Everything we know comes and goes in cycles. From the mundane to the extraordinary, this is the nature of our world and of the human condition. But my examination of science as a force for good and evil is one grounded in the present, where it is clear that our choices in the uses of science may well affect the way the world turns out. Certainly concern for the environment is high on my list of issues. But science pervades our lives in so many ways, and we are often incautious with its uses and dismissive of its affects. Who we are and how we live in the present is directly connected to the past, and you have to take a close look at the lessons we once thought we would never forget, but somehow have.

Posted by John on August 29, 2007 08:51 AM | Posted to Fantasy | Interviews
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