Tag: The Wheel of Time

After Robert Jordan’s death, Brandon Sanderson was selected by Harriet McDougal (Robert Jordan’s widow), to complete the final book in the epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by Mistborn: The Final Empire. Tor Books made the announcement December 7, 2007. On March 30, 2009 it was announced that A Memory of Light, originally slated to be the final book in the Wheel of Time series, will be split into three volumes. The first, The Gathering Storm, will be released in November 2009, with the remaining novels following in November 2010 and November 2011. The second and third books are not yet titled.

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Review: The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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 [...]

3 Comments Nov 6, 2009 Regis Reviews
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Translations and the duty of publishers

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 [...]

1 Comment Nov 4, 2009 Regis News
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Warming up for The Gathering Storm

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 [...]

3 Comments Oct 27, 2009 Regis General
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Twitter Tidbits

Twitter is a wonderful tool, not only as communication between friends but as a way to grab important and unimportant tidbits from the people you admire.
Terry Prattchet (@terryandrob):
Okay, that’s it. We’ve just reached the end of Unseen Academicals. THE END. Now all we’ve got to do is go back and do all the back-filling.
Unseen Academicals is the 37th (yes, you read that correctly) Discworld novel, and is scheduled to be released on October 8. The fact that I have read all the previous 36 might indicate just how talented Pratchett is.
Hugo Awards (@TheHugoAwards):
Hugo Award Voting Opens http://www.thehugoawards.org/?p=533
The Hugo Awards is [...]

4 Comments May 20, 2009 Regis Twitter Tidbits
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US cover revealed for The Gathering Storm

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 [...]

6 Comments May 14, 2009 Regis News
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