Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names Reagan O’Neal and Jackson O’Reilly.
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It’s always hard to compare the last books in a series to the earlier ones, mostly because it’s in the last ones that all the climatic battles will take place and all the storylines will come to an end. You cannot have a third act without an act one and two, yet the third act will in almost every case be seen as ‘the best part’. That is very much how I feel about The Wheel of Time right now. It has dragged out for eleven books, and when Brandon Sanderson now takes over after the unfortunate death of Robert [...]
Back when I started reading fantasy my English was crap. So the natural process was to pick up book translated to Swedish, in my case books by David Eddings. These days I wouldn’t touch an Eddings book even with a long stick, but back then it was they who got me into fantasy. One thing led to another, and I ended up borrowing translated Wheel of Time books (the translated title is “The Saga of the Return of the Dragon” or something stupid like that) from a friend who had all the books (to that date).
Reading translated books is a pain. Not only is [...]
Today is the day when the long-awaited sequel to the way too long fantasy series The Wheel of Time is released. The writing and publishing of this series is a story in its own way, although I doubt even Robert Jordan would have been able to squeeze ten more than five books from it.
I think anyone that has started reading a long fantasy series that is currently unfinished (and it seems fantasy is a genre cursed with long series) lives with the fear of the author dying before it is completed, or the author simply seems to focus on other [...]
The cover for the US version of The Gathering Storm, book twelve of The Wheel of Time, has been unveiled by Tor Books on Dragonmount. The cover is done by Darryl K. Sweet, who has done all the previous US covers for the series.
As previously announced by Tor Books, the last book in the series – A Memory of Light – will be divided into three parts, the first one being The Gathering Storm. They will be written by Brandon Sanderson after Robert Jordan passed away in 2007.
The cover obviously display Rand al’Thor, with some other less obvious woman, at some [...]
