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A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013
First time accepted submitter Hotawa Hawk-eye writes "Tor Books has announced that the release date for the final volume in the Wheel of Time series of books, A Memory Of Light, will be January 8, 2013. [Barring a Mayan apocalypse, of course.] The fantasy series, started by Robert Jordan and continued by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death, will span 15 books and over 10,000 pages."
the Mayan apocalypse..
We can finally get an official count on the number of times somebody tugs on a braid or smooths a skirt in the series.
Fucking Epic.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
kid finds out he is magic && author discovers he can milk 4 books into 9 && author gets a divorce and hates women && author discovers he can write even more books without moving the plot along && author dies without finishing the story.
Sanderson is one of those terrible authors who can't seem to not write a best seller. I'd be jealous if I wasn't enjoying his books so much.
A bunch of man-haters try to kill male magic users because they go crasy. One reincarnated guy get magic, picks up a harem and adds pool cleaner to the magic well. Meanwhile sniffing in disdain, clothing derumpled and beards being stroked fill the books while female chauvinism abounds.
Think I made it to book..six? seven? before failing to care.
First it was supposed to be one book; then Tor realized they could go the Harry Pothead/Twitlight direction and 'enhance their revenue' by splitting it into three. OK, whatever.
Then, they push the publish date of the second book back to coincide with the Christmas holiday (because, you know, the people who haven't read the other 11 books at this point are TOTALLY going to buy this one for Christmas anyway!), even though Sanderson had the book finished and edited by the end of July. Oh yea, and no eBook; 'fuck you, Jordan fans!' Well, shit. Whatever.
Finally, they tell us the final book, which some people (my wife) have been waiting over a decade for, will come out in Summer 2011... no, Fall 2011... wait, make that Holiday 2011... just kidding, really it will be spring 2012... OK, Fall 2012... now Spring 20-fucking-13??? Fuck you to, Tor. Fuck you right up your greedy goatse asses.
I swear, if Tor published anything else actually worth reading, I'd be seriously considering a boycott at this point.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
It's okay. I got the part about how he discovers magic and gets a harem.
That's all I need. I'll give the first book a shot :)
While GRRM isn't my bitch.. I certainly hope Sanderson picks up where GRRM left off. If for no other reason than to finish the series in a timely manner.
Perhaps we need to kickstart a "Lets make Sanderson our bitch, to finish up GRRMs work" thinger?
Not to worry, with a 5 digit UID it's unlikely you'd live long enough to have another author Jordan a series like that.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
There will be a Mayan Apocalypse. The Mayan Apocalypse is not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning...
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.