Rainer Gladys Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon . In this book, the story returns to Nest's native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void. This time, the demon is the ancient Findo Gask, along with his sidekicks: a giant albino demon, a shapeless ur'droch who lives only to kill, and a self-destructive psycho named Penny Dreadful. The story begins when John Ross shows up at Nest Freemark's door with a young boy. He reveals that the boy, who he calls Little John, is actually a gypsy morph, a creature born of wild magic and capable of enormous deeds, for good or evil. Both sides have approximately one month to unravel Little John's secrets and recruit him for their cause. Because after one month, the magic that holds him together will tear him apart, and his powers will be lost forever.

John Ross, the tortured, conflicted Knight of the Word from Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon , finally gets a good night's sleep in the sequel. He buys this moment's peace at the cost of his sacred oath to be a champion of the Word, renouncing that pledge after failing to prevent the slaughter of a group of schoolchildren. Duty and destiny are difficult to elude, though, and soon his former charge Nest Freemark, now a college student and Olympic hopeful, arrives to warn him of his imminent destruction, or, worse, his unwitting fall into the service of the Void.

With peace reigning in the Magic Kingdom at last, Ben Holiday is finally free to lie back and enjoy the finer things in life - like watching his daughter grow, which she does by leaps and bounds. Born a seedling and nourished by soil from Landover, Earth and the fairy mists, Mistaya is a unique child, fully as dazzling as her mother, the sylph, Willow - but fiery and impatient with those who can't keep up with her lightning-fast development. But Ben's idyll is not to last. The dark and pitiless Rydall, king of lands beyond the fairy mists, arrives at the gates of Sterling Silver. His armies are ready to invade if Ben will not accept his challenge: to face and defeat seven different champions of Rydall's choice. And accept he must, for Mistaya has been snatched from her guardians by foul magic and only Rydall holds the key to her fate. . .

De Ruimters, voorvaderen van de mannen en vrouwen die de Aarde met hun robots ontvluchtten, hebben vijftig werelden geterravormd en een cultuur van schoonheid en verfijning gecreëerd. De Blijvers, robothaters, bleven achter en hun wantrouwen en angst voor robots verhinderden samenwerking. In het eerste deel van de trilogie werd het fragiele evenwicht verstoord toen op Inferno, waar Ruimters en Blijvers samenwerkten, CBN-001, Caliban, de eerste robot met een gravitonisch brein, ontwaakte. Het voortbestaan van deze nieuwe robotsoort komt opnieuw onder druk te staan door de moord op de impopulaire gouverneur. De hoofdverdachten zijn de superrobots Caliban en Prospero, die eerder probeerden te chanteren, maar dat niet slecht bedoelden. Beiden hoopten op de triomf van een nieuwe samenleving, maar die droom lijkt ver weg door de opkomst van foute ideologen. Gewelddadige onrust volgt, en politiefunctionaris Alvar Kresh krijgt de opdracht om de situatie voorzichtig te behandelen. Ondanks zijn inspanningen nemen de complicaties toe, wat leidt tot een verrassende ontknoping.