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New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the here's-to-sanderson's-health dept.

Tor Books has made the first chapter of the latest Wheel of Time book available to readers for free via their website. This is the first book to have work from Robert Jordan's replacement, Brandon Sanderson, since Jordan died in September of 2007. The Gathering Storm is complete and will be released on October 27th of this year. In addition, the prologue to this book will be available in e-book format on October 17th for $2.99. The whole of the Wheel of Time series will also be released as e-books with several of the books receiving new cover art as well.
Update: 09/07 23:42 GMT by KD : Reader Daniel Benamy points out that the correct release date for the prologue e-book is September 17.

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  1. Re:Oooo ya by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Troll

    . When Wheel was introduced, it was touted as book 1 of a 9 part series. The first few books were fantastic. Then Jordan decided to stretch out the series so as not to kill his money maker. Book 13 came and went with no conclusion to the story in sight, and Jordan seemed to be milking descriptions of everything in his world for all they were worth in order to extend the series.

    I'm sure if you go back and look closely, you could probably determine the exact chapter he was writing when he found out that from that point on, he was going to be paid by the word.

  2. Re:Oooo ya by loufoque · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gosh, gee-wilikers, I wish I had such an in-depth knowledge of fantasy as you. Piss off. If you have a different taste in books that's fine. If I happen to like something you don't, that's fine too.

    It's not a matter of taste.
    If you find something that is cliché to be fantastic, then that necessarily mean you have a very shallow knowledge of the domain that even prevents you from seeing it is cliché.