Angel Fire East

core novel 1999 Shannara

Record

First published	1999
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.12 (14,053 ratings, collected 2026-09-12)
First-edition ISBN	0-345-37964-0
First-edition date	1999-10
Internal chronology	3

Synopsis

The third novel of the Word and Void trilogy takes place around Christmas of 2012, reuniting John Ross and Nest Freemark a decade after their last encounter. Ross experiences a prophetic vision revealing that a rare magical being called a Gypsy Morph is forming in the present day, an entity capable of becoming a powerful tool for either the Word or the Void depending on who unlocks its secret, and doomed to vanish within a month if its nature is not discovered first. After the Morph settles into the form of a four-year-old boy, Ross brings it to Hopewell, Illinois, seeking the help of Nest Freemark, now twenty-nine and a former Olympic runner living in her childhood home.

Where it sits

• Universe: Shannara
• Series: Word & Void core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Terry Brooks

Notes

• From the series record (Word & Void): Contemporary-set (1990s Illinois) prequel trilogy; the ultimate origin of the saga's magic and antagonists. Treated as Core per Brooks' own unified reading order, despite the non-Four-Lands setting.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within the series Word & Void: position 3 of 3: previous A Knight of the Word (1998)
• Internal chronology, within Shannara: position 3 of 32: previous A Knight of the Word (1998) · next Armageddon's Children (2006)

Sources

• Terry Brooks official site
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannara
• https://www.isfdb.org
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Fire_East

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