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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Published
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Still
Book
Even
Thinking
Sword

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