Werthead Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Dylanfanatic' post='1704396' date='Mar 2 2009, 05.21']Looks as though [url="http://www.createyourcountdown.com/page/torbooks"]Nov. 3, 2009[/url] will be the US release of at least Part I of AMoL. Received that just now in my email from Tor.com.[/quote] Do they say 'Part I' or just [i]A Memory of Light[/i]? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodor Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Werthead' post='1704642' date='Mar 2 2009, 15.07']Do they say 'Part I' or just [i]A Memory of Light[/i]?[/quote] No, strangely just "A Memory of Light", the message I got also included this link: [url="http://www.createyourcountdown.com/page/torbooks"]http://www.createyourcountdown.com/page/torbooks[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Theodor' post='1704690' date='Mar 2 2009, 08.54']No, strangely just "A Memory of Light", the message I got also included this link: [url="http://www.createyourcountdown.com/page/torbooks"]http://www.createyourcountdown.com/page/torbooks[/url][/quote] Book 12: Memory of Light Book 13: The Circle of Dawn :) No MoL Part 1 and Part 2, please. Just make title them as two books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Goldberg Rubinshteyn Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 What are the chances for that in the last book, Rand and Elayne start channeling Atium, Mat's and Rand's memories are explained as Copperminds and all the forsaken turn out to have hemarlurgical spikes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cseresz Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Myrddin' post='1704740' date='Mar 2 2009, 16.36']Book 12: Memory of Light Book 13: The Circle of Dawn[/quote] There will be a very long e-book. (No splitting etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanna vander Poele Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Cobblestones' post='1704920' date='Mar 2 2009, 10.07']What are the chances for that in the last book, Rand and Elayne start channeling Atium, Mat's and Rand's memories are explained as Copperminds and all the forsaken turn out to have hemarlurgical spikes?[/quote] Truly, even M. Night Shamalyan could not think of a twist so great... and twist-y... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 Brandon Sanderson says [url="http://mistborn.livejournal.com/117644.html"]he'd like to comment[/url] on the date being bandied around by the widget being put up by Tor, but can't for the moment. He reiterates that solid news should follow in April, either online from Tor in the first couple of weeks or more likely from JordanCon at the end of the month. He does say that Harriet is happy with the state of AMoL at the moment, which is good. However, he is also now saying that the book may end up at 750,000 words 'or more', which is a bit less encouraging (as it means Part II will likely not be out until later than previously though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 We need a Swedish speaker here :) [url="http://www.sfbok.se/"]This website[/url] is reporting that [i]A Memory of Light[/i] will be split into three volumes and published in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively, with the first volume given the highly generic title [i]The Gathering Storm[/i]. The only garbled translation I could find didn't mention if this was the Swedish edition or Tor's own one. But seriously, if this is the Tor version, I can hear the outraged screams of [b]WoT[/b] fandom from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Based on the "out this November," it sounds as though it'd be the English version, unless the Swedish translator can get 400-700 pages of text translated and ready to be published in 2-3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 [quote name='Dylanfanatic' post='1733423' date='Mar 25 2009, 23.44']Based on the "out this November," it sounds as though it'd be the English version, unless the Swedish translator can get 400-700 pages of text translated and ready to be published in 2-3 months.[/quote] Oh boy. This is going to go down well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 SF Bokhandeln is a great SF/F speciality shop in Sweden, but they have been wrong about things of this nature before. They've made some mistakes with regards to ASoIaF that we've pointed out to them and which they duly correct. I find it highly unlikely that they'd be the ones to scoop this particular news, if it were true, so I'm thinking it's an error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 We can but hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 [url="http://www.abc.nl/blog/index.php/book-news/new-robert-jordan-book-to-be-split-into-smaller-volumes/"]Or not.[/url] And they've got the cover! [quote]We’ve just had news from the publisher of Robert Jordan’s[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time"] Wheel of Time[/url] series that the last installment will be split into two or possibly three parts. Tentative plans are to publish book 12 in November this year, with two more volumes following in 2010 and 2011. Robert Jordan passed away in September 2007 while he was still writing what was planned to be the last installment in the series. It was announced that [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson"]Brandon Sanderson [/url]would take up Jordan’s pen and complete the last book, to be entitled [i]A Memory of Light.[/i] A publication date of November 2009 was scheduled. Wheel of Time fans have been eagerly anticipating the last book and the series and will be pelased to learn that they will still get a new book, as promised, in 2009 - [url="http://www.abc.nl/search/detailed.php?isbn=9780765325631&valuta=$"]The Gathering Storm [/url]will be published this coming November in a [b]large format paperback.[/b] (I.e., lots cheaper than a hardcover!) The price is currently EUR 21.99, though this may change (we’re trying to make it cheaper, obviously!)[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaesterLuwin Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I'm hoping the 3 volume thing is not true. I'm hoping that if it is, they don't come out with one year in between each. I'd rather have a Dark Tower type final trilogy, with only a few months between volumes. [quote]The Gathering Storm will be published this coming November in a large format paperback.[/quote] I hope it's hardcover. Large paperbacks are probably the worst format you can get. All the bulk of a hardcover with none of the endurance. EDIT: That's one-hand Rand on the cover, but who's the girl? Wrong hair for Nynaeve, and Min does not wear dresses. Elayne? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irriadin Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Ugh. I really hope they don't space them out that long. I don't want to wait until 2011 to read the whole thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 That is one fuck-ugly cover. They've found a lower place than Knife of Dreams, which I really did not think was possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Strange that foreign retailers are getting this news first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaesterLuwin Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Also, the cover says "Book One of [i]A Memory of Light[/i]" instead of "Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time". Perhaps to claim that they kept AMoL one book in spirit, if not in binding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach H Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 That generic Gathering Storm stuff really cheapens [i]A Memory of Light[/i], which I thought was a great title. They should've stuck with volume numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 :agree: [quote name='Werthead' post='1733452' date='Mar 25 2009, 20.19']That is one fuck-ugly cover.[/quote] Fuck-ugly, I like that. It might replace stinks on ice as my new curse phrase. The title is only slightly less original than [b][i]Lord of Chaos[/i][/b] and [b][i]A Shadow Rising[/i][/b]. Too bad that press release or whatever it is isn't dated April 1. :bang: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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