From evilsheep
The voice of the Dragon has been stilled. Robert Jordan, one of my favorite authors, passed away on Sunday, the 16th of September, 2007 after a lengthy battle with Amyloidosis, a rare blood disease that caused the walls of his heart to thicken.For those of you who have not cracked the covers of his Wheel of Time series, if you enjoy fantasy in the slightest you are missing one of the greatest literary adventures of our time. Jordan’s epic writing style and talent for putting you in the scene were surpassed by few if any authors in the fantasy genre. He was working on the twelfth book in the series when he died, and the thought that he won’t be here to tell the rest of the story is heart-wrenching. However, don’t let that keep you from reading the books. After all, fantasy is all about imagination, so read the eleven books out there, hope that enough of number twelve was done to be published, and let your imagination fill in the ending. From every interview and article I’ve seen and read by Jordan, I think he’d be perfectly happy with us each having our own ending.
Losing an author like Mr. Jordan is like losing a friend, one I feel that I’ve come to know a bit through our shared love of the fantasy genre, and our mutual interest in the lives and deaths of his characters. His passion, wit, and wisdom will be sorely missed, but his work will always have a place in our library.
Best wishes to his family, his friends, and his legions of fans. Even though it sucks to say it as much as it sucks to hear it, he is now at peace, is no longer in pain, and above all, remember, he fought the good fight. And we all learned something from the way he fought it until the very end.
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