Robert Jordan – RIP
Shortly after I started reading The Wheel of Time series, I learned that Robert Jordan, the author, was battling a disease called cardiac amyloidosis.
A few minutes ago I pulled up Google Reader to see what’s been going on in the blogosphere over the weekend, and learned that Robert Jordon lost that battle this afternoon.
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. (source)
Rest in peace.
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Justin B. September 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am
RIP Robert Jordan! As a Wheel of Time fan, this is so tragic! I can not believe it! I thought it was some pratical joke at first, what is our world coming to? Jk! But first Madaleine L’engle, now him. Why are some many authors dying? This must be a coincidence! I do not know what to saym this news is tragic! Let all WOT fans remember a master! RIP Robert Jordan!
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