There are neither beginnings nor endings...

[jsbowden]

Yet, some things do stop.

The Neilsen-Haydens over at Making Light, and Robert Jordan's (pseudonym for Jame Oliver Rigney Jr.) cousin at Dragonmount.com and Tarvalon.com have reported that he died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007 at 2:45 PM (timezone, not known to me). Most of the people on my f-list are former denizens of rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan, and many of them I call friends and have spent time with out in the Real World, thanks to a shelf of hardcovers that may find itself never complete.

You'll be missed, good sir. Thank you for all you wrote; even the books that weren't up to the same standard as The Shadow Rising are still better than a lot of what gets published in the SF/Fantasy genre.

Comments

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

holy crap.

[johan-g.livejournal.com]

Damn. Damn. Damn.

At this point I don't care that much about the books. I just really, really wanted him to beat this.

Damn.

[ohilya.livejournal.com]

Say what you will about his books, he brought a lot of people together. What a deeply impressive man.

[carpone.livejournal.com]

It's been years since I picked up one of his books. I think I stopped reading after the 6th book because there was no end to the series in sight. I wonder if his family will finish writing the series. We probably won't find out for years, assuming that part of his estate has to go through probate.