Robert Jordan Dead
Mood:  sad
I read this over at reddit.com and the wikipedia article about Robert Jordan shows him to have died today at his home with his family around him. Very sad news if it is true and there is no reason to believe it isn't true. I saw him at Books and Company in Dayton when he was touring with his latest Wheel of Time book and I got that book signed. As you can see from the picture here to my eyes he looked sick. And then of course it was shortly after when he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with a particularly nasty type of cancer. I've been rereading his books right now. A great author whose imagination and vision brought a generation of new readers to fantasy books. Damn. He died with one book left unwritten in the twelve book series but you know, that hardly matters now and whether his widow can finish his book up is of less importance than the fact that he passed on. Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Faile and the whole cast of characters were brought to life by Robert Jordan and they have brought a certain immortality to Robert Jordan. He will be missed.