Terry Brooks est en interview en anglais ici.

Extrait :
Shawn Speakman: The Shannara series is set in a world that has risen from the ashes of civilization’s end. What made you decide to set the epic fantasy of The Sword of Shannara in that setting?
Terry Brookss: When I wrote The Sword of Shannara back in the late sixties and early seventies, it was intended as a one book project. So I wasn’t looking ahead to what might come after. My decision to establish Shannara in a post-apocalyptic world was predicated on a desire to show what might happen to a world in which science was replaced by magic — but magic that operated in essentially the same way as science. Thus, good or bad, it worked the same draining effects on the user and frequently had unintended consequences. The users couldn’t always know what the results would be. I wanted to look at how that would compare with our own world, letting readers make that jump all on their own, which mostly, I think, they did. All the rest, including the shift back towards science that began in Voyage and High Druid, along with the prequel series, came later.