Robert Jordan
So, the wheel of time has ground to a stop.
Robert Jordan died yesterday, having lost his fight against amyloidosis.
Back in 1990 his UK publishers rep came in to the shop I was running to go through the new titles for the next couple of months.
One of them was a big new fantasy hardback, nice dj, map printed on the inside covers - looked very nice, but it was an almost completely unknown author. I ordered one copy! There was no mention of a sequel.
The next year the rep came in to sell me the sequel saying that it was going to be a trilogy.
The year after that he came in to sell me volume three of a series…
Around about then I started winding people up by claiming that a ‘wheel of time’ was obviously like a clock face and that therefore there would be 12 volumes - this seemed really unlikely back then and people assumed I was joking but now it seems like time really has been called an hour early.
