Robert Jordan (Author) Dies

[MrBishop]

Atlanta, Ga. 9/17/2007 1:47 PM GMT (FINDITT) Robert Jordan, the author of the fantasy literature series “Wheel of Time” died on Sunday afternoon at the age of 58. Jordan had been battling cardiac amyloidosis for the past year.



Born in Charleston, South Carolina Jordan served two tours in Vietnam before returning and earning a physics degree from The Citadel. He worked for the U.S. Navy after graduation and began writing in 1977. He found success as a writer of several Conan the Barbarian stories before turning his attention to the “Wheel of Time" series” that he began to publish in 1990.



Jordan published eleven books in the series and had been working on the final in the series “A Memory of Light” when he past away.



http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=23003&ret=Default.aspx

[hectorberlioz]

My brother is going to cry...this is sad:(. He didn't even get to finish the last book. He was in pretty bad shape, I hear:(
RIP, Mr. Jordan. God Bless.

[Acalewia]

This is sad. :( He was a great author. I feel bad for his wife.

The time came for him to wake from the dream, but its still sad to think that such a great author had to pass on

[Tessar]

Nooooooooo. :( I thought he was getting better!!!!!


That is so sad... Wheel of Time is... wow... I mean, it was my first really EPIC fantasy series that I -really- got into aside from LotR. I mean... gosh, I spent about 5 years of my life being totally addicted to those books, and playing a MUD based on them, and doing forum RPGs, and... wow.


That's really sad :-/.

[Earniel]

Well, crap.

58 just is too young. :( Sad news indeed.

Sad too that he didn't manage to see the end of his Wheel of Time series. Such an epic series deserves an end. I hope maybe someone can be found who can finish it by his notes.

(moving it to Sci-fi and Fantasy Novel Forum)

[brownjenkins]

It's very sad, and he will be missed. :(

On the series, about a year or so back, when he was first diagnosed, he said he was making plans for the series' completion if he wasn't able to finish.

[hectorberlioz]

So the guy had a plan to help readers finish, even if he died before he could expand the universe more. Very thoughtful to his fans. Unlike some authors I know of... :mad:

[b.banner]

i just found out on yahoo..... :( :( :( i also just finished crying :( my favorite author of all time! he seemed fine in his last blog!

[The Telcontarion]

He did sound find in his blog, that's how I even found out he was sick to begin with. This is a very sad turn of events. Prayers and blessings for his family.

[IronParrot]

I gave up on the series after A Crown of Swords and had no intention of ever going back, but I was really hoping he'd make it. Shame, really.

My thoughts are here (http://www.nicholastam.ca/2007/09/17/and-the-dragon-comes-in-the-night/).

[Serenoli]

I read all the Wheel of Time books at once - I was a bit disappointed by the last few, but after reading all eleven, I was hoping to see the end of it. I'm glad he kept some method for us to find out what happens at the end even if something happened to him... When my friend told me he was dead, I checked the news items and found nothing... so I thought he hadn't died, and it was just a rumour. Now I'm sad all over again. :(