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Re: Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" saga comes full circle
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rahw
Oct 29, 2009, 2:16:18 PM10/29/09
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On Oct 29, 7:33 am, chronicle <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@
[127.1]> wrote:
> (USA Today) - When Robert Jordan – the most popular fantasy writer
> since Tolkien – died two years ago at age 58, he left behind his
> "Wheel of Time" saga, unfinished.
>
> Begun in 1990 with "The Eye of the World", the epic tale mixing myth,
> religion and an ongoing battle to save the world from The Shadow grew
> to include 11 novels, a prequel and more than 30 million books in
> print.
>
> This week, "The Gathering Storm" (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/GatheringStorm), the 12th book in the series, hits
> stores. There is a new name on the jacket alongside Jordan's: Brandon
> Sanderson. The 33-year-old author of Mistborn and other fantasy novels
> was chosen to complete the novel by Jordan's widow, Harriet McDougal,
> who edited all of her husband's books.
>
> "It was truly (Jordan's) great work and his life's work," McDougal
> says. Until the week before he died on Sept. 16, 2007, of a rare blood
> disease called amyloidosis, Jordan was telling his wife "what the
> series needed to be completed."
>
> Continued: http://xrl.us/GatheringStorm2
[127.1]> wrote:
> (USA Today) - When Robert Jordan – the most popular fantasy writer
> since Tolkien – died two years ago at age 58, he left behind his
> "Wheel of Time" saga, unfinished.
>
> Begun in 1990 with "The Eye of the World", the epic tale mixing myth,
> religion and an ongoing battle to save the world from The Shadow grew
> to include 11 novels, a prequel and more than 30 million books in
> print.
>
> This week, "The Gathering Storm" (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/GatheringStorm), the 12th book in the series, hits
> stores. There is a new name on the jacket alongside Jordan's: Brandon
> Sanderson. The 33-year-old author of Mistborn and other fantasy novels
> was chosen to complete the novel by Jordan's widow, Harriet McDougal,
> who edited all of her husband's books.
>
> "It was truly (Jordan's) great work and his life's work," McDougal
> says. Until the week before he died on Sept. 16, 2007, of a rare blood
> disease called amyloidosis, Jordan was telling his wife "what the
> series needed to be completed."
>
> Continued: http://xrl.us/GatheringStorm2
FWD rec.art.sf.written.robert-jordan
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