Robert Jordans died Sunday, Sept 16, at age 58

MaidMirawyn

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For those who haven't heard, Robert Jordan, author of The Wheel of Time series, died Sunday from the rare blood disease he's been fighting for the last year and a half.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was a devout Christian (a "High Church Episcopalian").

Apparently Tor is still planning to publish A Memory of Light, the last volume of WoT, which he had hoped to finish before his death. He outlined all the major plot points to his family and left notes.

With the death of Madeleine L'Engle on September 6, it's been a sad month for Christian scifi and fantasy fans...
 
:-(

That's really sad. I did not know he was a Christian though. Very cool! What's "High Church Episcopalian?"

I've started the WoT series, but I haven't gotten through the first book. Is 'A Memory of Light' the last of the series? Does it wrap everything together? Or will more be written by a different author?
 
It's unfinished, but it will be finished and published. He outlined the major plot points to his family (and had lots of notes, I'll bet). I read that Tor will be completing the work in consultation with his wife.

And yes, A Memory of Light will be the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, with the Last Battle and all the events surrounding it.

Oh, and don't read A New Spring until you've read at least the first three or four books of the main series.
 
I heard that Robert Jordan had passed away earlier today (well, yesterday as per it being now Wednesday morning for me) but it is too bad that he had passed away and yes, condolences to both families. Also, I have not heard of the other author as well.
 
Yeah, considering no one I know has ever heard of it, I'm not sure it's THE most popular. I read on wiki that books 8-11 were all #1 New York Times Bestseller thingies though
 
HP just reminds me of how stupid our generation is today. When you make someone learn something they whine so much it's not even funny.

How to learn how to do something:
1) The good old fashioned read about it and do it.
2) Try and fail until you succeed somewhat.
3) Beg someone to show you until they teach you every step.
4) Don't learn and just pretend you know it.

It just scares me to think of some of the work ethics of the coming generation.
 
The reason I say "besides Harry Potter" is that many, many people read Harry Potter who never read any other fantasy, except maybe stuff that's almost identical to Harry Potter.

Let's see how many good fantasy writers I can name quickly...

Jordan, L'engle, David and Leigh Eddings, Aspirin, Feist, Wrede, Piers Anthony*, Lackey*, Brooks, Gaiman, Pratchett, Duane...

And classic: Lewis, Wells, Verne, Tolkien, Baum, Brothers Grimm (Grimm's fairy tales are not so sunny and happy as those we're used to)...

Also, several works by George MacDonald, a nineteenth century Scottish author and minister, fall into the fantasy category.

*A word about Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey... Both are excellent writers, BUT not necessarily appropriate. They are nevertheless quite popular. Much of Anthony's work has a clear (and, in my view, reprehensible) agenda. (Last two volumes of Incarnations of Immortality and most of the Xanth books past the first dozen especially.) Mercedes Lackey doesn't necessarily have an agenda, but she doesn't write from a Christian worldview, so some of her stuff can be rather worldly.
 
MaidMirawyn said:
I forget about it because I don't particularly like it...but WoT is very close behind it.



Do you even KNOW anyone who reads fantasy? Real fantasy, not HP?

Children!
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I don't know many people who read that stuff, no. Am I saying I never read it? Well, some stuff I read. Not often. I know of a few good other authors but for the life of me I can't remember what their names are.
 
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