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Like most fantasy writers, Eldon Thompson is an avid weightlifter and wishes he was playing quarterback in the NFL. But a hardcover deal with HarperCollins for his “Legend of Asahiel” trilogy seems a fair consolation prize. In it, he is dutifully following some of the longest-standing conventions of the genre… so that he can tear them all down and catch a reader or two by surprise. If that doesn’t work, he is on the verge of making a splash in Hollywood — and hopes that he won’t merely drown. His screenplay adaptation of Terry Brooks’s “Shannara” is currently in development at Warner Bros.