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|REY| The DEL REY BOOKS Internet Newsletter

Number 37 (February 1996)

WHAT'S NEW IN THE STORES===========================================

FIRST KING OF SHANNARA by Terry Brooks. Hardcover. (OL)

Each of the seven _Shannara_ novels has been a _New York Times_ bestseller,
selling in all over 10 million copies. And over the years Terry Brooks has
been asked thousands of questions about characters and situations in the
series. In FIRST KING OF SHANNARA, which is set 500 years before THE SWORD
OF SHANNARA, Terry answers in great detail the most important of those
questions: How were the Druids destroyed? What happened to Paranor? What
is the early history of the Shannara family? How did the Sword of Shannara
come to be? Anyone who enjoyed the previous _Shannara_ titles, or likes
epic fantasy, will enjoy visiting the beginnings of the _Shannara_ epic in
the latest--and possibly the last--_Shannara_ book..

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------------------------------------------------------------- STAR WARS:
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO VEHICLES AND VESSELS by Bill Smith. Art by Doug
Chiang, technical illustrations by Troy Vigil. Trade Paperback. (SWS)

Companion to THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARACTERS, this volume details the 100
key spaceships from the _Star Wars_ movies, books, comics, and even the
upcoming SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE multimedia saga. As a bonus, there is a
brief Star Wars timeline, a Layman's Guide to Technology, and a listing of
the key starship manufacturers in the Star Wars Universe. Each entry
features various illustrations and schematics prepares especially for this
volume.

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-------------------------------------------------------------- THE SWORD OF
SHANNARA by Terry Brooks. Paperback. (OL)

This is the book that was the first fantasy novel to hit the _New York
Times_ bestseller list in trade paperback, forcing the _Times_ to change
the way it organized its lists: before THE SWORD OF SHANNARA, the
Paperback Bestseller list was called "Nonfiction." As one of Del Rey's
first titles ever, THE SWORD OF SHANNARA had a major impact even beyond the
bestseller list. It proved that fantasy could be a reality in the
marketplace, and established Del Rey as a major player in the field. (It
didn't hurt that the fledging imprint's other title was a book called STAR
WARS!) An epic fantasy adventure.