Robert Jordan, fantasy writer, has passed away

BigBadMick

Robert Jordan died at the weekend.

:( :( :( :( :( :(

Fucking crap.

I've been reading the Wheel of Time since 1995, and now IT WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED!!!

FUCKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, his wife Harriet, was a publishing agent, as far as i know, so she'll probably scrape together his notes and cobble together a final volume to round the series off, hopefully.

RIP Robert. You certainly made my reading time more entertaining.

VincentAC

R.I.P. :-(

I'm not a fan, actually never heard of him before now, but I thought I'd check him out on wiki just now.

The Wheel of time:

Final volume

On October 18, 2005, at a book signing in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Jordan gave the working title of the 12th book as A Memory of Light. As one of the attendees told Dragonmount.com, Jordan also warned that the final volume of the saga "could be a 1500-page monster" because he has so many dangling plot threads to wrap up in a single volume. He maintained that A Memory of Light would remain one volume "whether it is 1500 pages long, Tor has to invent a new binding system, or it comes with its own library cart". Due to his health problems, Jordan did not work at full force on the final installment, but blog entries confirmed that he continued work on it until his death, and he shared all of the significant plot details with his family not long before he died.

So it may not be finished by him, but it will be finished.

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I particularly like the "library cart" part :lol:

Arjun

Damn! Now we'll never know what the Dragon's legacy was! :(

RIP RJ!

dekh

Yes but Christopher Tolkien will be able to write 30 more volumes about it.

Ooops sorry wrong author.