Sad News
From Slashdot:
"James Oliver Rigney Jr, author of the long-running fantasy series The Wheel of Time and better known to millions of fans by the pen name Robert Jordan, died on 16 Sept 2007 from cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan announced he had been diagnosed with the disease in March 2006 and vowed to beat the odds, but determination and gumption sometimes just aren't enough in the face of a disease with a median survival time of just over two years. Jordan was in the process of writing the twelfth and final book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, but the book was not slated for release until 2009 and is still incomplete. While there is hope that the book will still be finished from Jordan's notes, this is devastating news to all of us who have been reading the series since 1990."
I'm reading the 11th book in the series now, and it's tragic to think that I may never see the end of his amazing story. Many argue the story deteriorated in the later half, and I think it was plagued by several short-comings, but it was still significant and amazingly intricate. He was basically considered one of the dominate fantasy authors who helped structure the genre. If you haven't read them, you definitely should.
"James Oliver Rigney Jr, author of the long-running fantasy series The Wheel of Time and better known to millions of fans by the pen name Robert Jordan, died on 16 Sept 2007 from cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan announced he had been diagnosed with the disease in March 2006 and vowed to beat the odds, but determination and gumption sometimes just aren't enough in the face of a disease with a median survival time of just over two years. Jordan was in the process of writing the twelfth and final book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, but the book was not slated for release until 2009 and is still incomplete. While there is hope that the book will still be finished from Jordan's notes, this is devastating news to all of us who have been reading the series since 1990."
I'm reading the 11th book in the series now, and it's tragic to think that I may never see the end of his amazing story. Many argue the story deteriorated in the later half, and I think it was plagued by several short-comings, but it was still significant and amazingly intricate. He was basically considered one of the dominate fantasy authors who helped structure the genre. If you haven't read them, you definitely should.