Heucrazy

Any fans of the "Wheel of Time" series know this is a sad day but one that was coming due to his illness.

According to www.wotmania.com Jordan had outlined the final book of the series on audio tapes and there is an "army" of writers working to put together the final book and it still will be published.

Sad day.

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Brian in Mesa

RIP James Oliver Rigney, Jr. aka Robert Jordan (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007)

I know a lot of people who are reading the series. Haven't read any of it myself. I have read several of his original Conan novels though.

Chaplin

Wow. Just wow. I knew his health was bad, but it is still very surreal. I hope this "army of writers" does him justice and the series ends well.

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Chris_Sanders

Around Book 6 when some of the Forsaken started coming back from the dead I knew that RJ wouldn't finish the series. He wasn't a young guy when this started.

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Linderbee

He was 59! That's really not old. Correction...had he made it to his birthday he would have turned 59. He was only 58.

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Brian in Mesa

I almost responded with that when I first read his post, but I think he was saying the guy started the series at age 41 and 6 books in it was obvious that this was going to be a LOOOONNNNGGGG series. I don't think it was plotted out as a certain number of books in the beginning, so one could wonder as they were reading a more and more complex storyline - "Will the author live to finish this series?"

Linderbee

Gotcha. He was younger than my dad & older than my mom...their mortality has been haunting me lately, so I get defensive at the thought of them being "old". Silly, I know.

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Chris_Sanders

Yeah but that is old to be writing a supposed 10 book series. His series is easily the most complicated fiction I have ever read.

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Linderbee

Yeah, I gotcha. I'm still stickin' with "it's not old".

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Chris_Sanders

Yes this is exactly what I was thinking.

Here is the basics of the series:

Doomed Champion is reborn to save the world, but he will break the world to save it. In the process he will likely lose his sanity and his life.

To save the world he must first destroy the Forsaken. Men and women of a past age who gave themselves to Shai'tan to live forever. Then he will face Shai'tan at the gates of hell.

His enemies and allies number as nations swear to his cause. Central to his life are around 20-30 secondary characters. Central to them are two other "main characters", each with their own story (My favorite being Mat Cauthon)

There are so many characters and the world is so rich and diverse, you can go several chapters before you see any of the 3 main characters, let alone the savior/destroyer of all.

Now imagine that just when it seems the villians are being weeded out, you discover you can't really just kill the Forsaken since they have already given their soul away. You can really only permanently get rid of them one way and only a couple have died that way.

Now do you understand why it would seem like this series would go on forever?

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Chris_Sanders

Some of my favorite Mat Cauthon quotes:

--If the world is ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.


--Bad habits pay off in the long run.


--Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.


--Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything.


--Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.


--Luck is a horse to ride like any other.


Thanks for sharing your dreams with me RJ! RIP

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phxrising

My fav from Mat is in my sig - it means time to roll the dice

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Phlegyas

From http://www.wotmania.com:

Tor Announces Brandon Sanderson Will Complete A Memory of Light
Dylanfanatic - 12/10/2007 12:26:56 PM
This first was posted via Publishers Weekly



Tor Books announced today that novelist Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish writing the final novel in Robert Jordan’s bestselling Wheel of Time fantasy series. Jordan—described by some as Tolkien’s heir—died Sept. 16 from a rare blood disease. The new novel, A Memory of Light, will be the 12th and final book in the fantasy series which has sold more than 14 million copies in North America and more than 30 million copies worldwide. The last four books in the series were all #1 New York Times bestsellers.

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Chris_Sanders

Whoo hoo!!!