Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away

willith writes "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."

Comments

Re:and completely boring news ...

[Khaed]

Wait, you're such a pussy you won't post the word "fuck" without an asterisk in an ANONYMOUS POST? Just what kind of a loser AC troll are you?

Re:a blessing on readers of Wheel of time

[IndustrialComplex]

During a person's life, a person tends to develop personal relationships. Any person with even marginally developed social skills understands that when such relationships are broken by something as permanent as death, there will be a need for some emotional catharsis.

Slashdot readers are known to be pretty antisocial, and you haven't done much to break the mold. In your zeal to be provacative, I think you largely missed the point of the funeral service. It is for the people who are still alive. You know, the ones who aren't unthinking inanimate matter. I know its hip on Slashdot to take shots at people's faith, but you have missed the mark on this one. No appeals to faith here, just normal human reaction to giving the family and friends a day or two before you start pissing in his urn.