Once upon a time - for example, Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:35:05 -0700 -
there was this guy, or something, called Marton Field
<arivers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, and they made us all feel better by saying the
following stuff:
>> How about you? Anything to say? Hm?
>
>OK. RJ is gone, and WOT is unfinished, with a ghost(?)-writer being
>lined up to do 'A Memory of Light' using RJ's notes. Might be Piers
>Anthony, but some of us are unhappy about it.
That was a joke.
I believe current gossip points at the oft-queried "brother-cousin" or
something, who will be working, with Harriet's help, from copious
notes left behind and a deathbed telling of the final chapters.
>I will be happy to pay big bucks for a leather-bound, collectors
>edition of AMOL, a mile thick, written by anyone at all, provided it
>contains a verbatim copy of RJ's notes.
I'm with you. Although I might draw the line at *big* bucks. Bucks,
certainly.
>After seeing the mess made by
>people trying to write in the style of Asimov, Zelazny, Frank Herbert,
>I am happy to stop reading WOT at the end of KOD, but I want those
>notes.
I quite liked the new Dune books by Herbert and Anderson. I think I
was about the only reader who did. But then, I didn't try to compare
them to the originals - I just thought of them in terms of Dragonlance
spin-offs.
O'course, when you compare anything with a Dragonlance spin-off,
you're giving it a very generous head start.
>It certainly would be great to see Piers A reverting to the style,
>imagination and panache he brought to 'Macroscope' all those many
>years ago, but I would prefer that he did it on his own work without
>having to add the bits about turnings of the WOT and what the wind is
>doing to set the scene at Ch 1. I still want to read RJ's notes and
>I'm happy to pay for the privilege.
I don't know about Piers Anthony taking the Wheel of Time helm. It
might be fun to see, but only if the franchise is thrown open to a
whole bunch of authors to try their hand. And like you say, he has his
own stuff to play around with, without going through a huge legal
kerfuffle for the Wheel of Time books.
But I suppose we'll all have to wait and see. Personally, I doubted
*Jordan's* ability to wrap this up satisfactorily in one volume
(although his apparent quote about the volume being 5,000 pages if
needs be, and Tor inventing a new method of binding books to make it
possible, gives me a little hope even though I know they will do no
such thing), let alone any of his relatives.
And Harriet, God love her, is not the world's best editor. Not to
sound mean, but she lacks a certain ... editing function.
>Nice needle, C & J
And people always said we were pointless.
C&J
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