BellaOnline Forums Books and Music Sci Fi/Fantasy Books Author Robert Jordan died yesterday 16 Sept

Apparently Robert Jordan, author of the best-selling Wheel of Time fantasy series, died yesterday from complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis). He had been fighting this disease for a couple of years now. The poor guy was only 58. He had not yet completed the 12th and final book in the Wheel of Time series: A Memory of Light.

I know he had been having a hard battle with this - with much pain and frustration. So in that way I am glad he is no longer suffering.

But dang! Now i'll never find out what happens to Rand, Matt, Perrin, & Elayne. The Matt/Tuon story was really getting good, too. And i don't think there is any way someone else can pick up his notes and finish it off, either. He was just too good.

I just saw the news this morning. How terrible, but as Michelle said, I'd heard he was in much pain.

My husband LOVES the Wheel of Time. We went down to Philadelphia two years ago to see him speak. He was a very wonderful speaker and he seemed a very nice person as well.

I want to say I'd read somewhere that he has very detailed notes of what he had planned for the stories. I do remember from when we saw him that he said he keeps very detailed files on all his characters.

I'd heard that at one time he didn't approve of the idea of someone else finishing his last book, but that he'd changed his mind on that and had shared all his notes with his family before he died. I'm guessing that his wife (who used to be a literary agent) will work with editors and make sure the last book gets published to complete the series.

I, too, am glad he is no longer suffering. I'm also, like Michelle, wondering who will finish the last book of The Wheel of Time. It's an awesome series and deserves to see completion. Plus, I really want to know the outcome of all those plots and subplots. (Hits submit while mumbling about plot twists and William Faulkner)