Slashdot: Robert Jordan passes away.

Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away
Posted by Zonk on Monday September 17, @01:22AM
from the doff-our-helms dept.
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."

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The comments on the article are somewhat morbid. There are a lot of people who were irritated by the fact that after book 5 the plotlines were stretched out. I could hardly make heads or tails from all the political schemes, but I loved the Wheel of Time, and especially the characters and the Aes Sedai.
I don't know what I have hoped -- showing him pictures of my ring and Accepted Dress is not something I had hoped for it is a fool's hope -- but I would have liked for him to spend some more healthy years amongst the living, writing or not. It is something we all wish for the good people.

Let us hope he reincarnates in the next Age.