A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 228
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."
Year of the Dragon (Score:5, Interesting)
As the Tor announcement stated, it will take place at the end of the Year of the Dragon. Cool beans.
I got to get dinner with Sanderson and Harriet Jordan on the Gathering Storm book tour. They're both very good people, and are the right people to be finishing this series.
I have no idea how Sanderson could possibly wrap up all the loose threads in just one more book, but if anyone can do it, he can.
Re:Summary please (Score:5, Interesting)
I have to disagree, I specifically liked the series because it's as different from LotR as you can get while still being an epic fantasy.
Count the number of times the words "wizard" or "magic" appear in the books. Then go hunt down the amount of terrible, terrible, terrible songs and poetry. Jordan purposefully avoided the hyper-nerd stuff, and actually gave us a story with interesting, capable main characters, instead of a story where the "heroes" essentially stumble their way to victory because they're so utterly useless.
I know the "ordinary people extraordinary things" is appealing to some people, and art is always a subjective thing, so please don't take it as if I'm literally saying the books are awful--I know they're probably great (except for the poetry, that stuff was flat-out terrible and the subjective rule of art be damned), I just use hyperbole to make my points and personally didn't like them.
And if you didn't like LotR the same as me, you might like WoT.
Re:Year of the Dragon (Score:4, Interesting)
This would be GRRM who didn't write a book in over five years, then admitted he'd screwed up the plotting and had been trying to rescue the story?