Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney) 1948 – 2007
Robert Jordan died on the 16th September after a battle with a rare form of heart disease.
This is something of note to me, personally, not only because I was a rabid fan of his Wheel of Time series for a long time but also because the online RJ community (particularly the newsgroup rasfwrj, where I lurked for years) played a huge part in my desire to be online and then played a huge part in my early online life.
Especially saddening, to everyone who ever was a fan, is that Jordan didn’t quite manage to finish the final volume of the series. So any form of closure (and I’m sure that a version of the final volume will see the light of day) will have to come by proxy and necessarily not quite be what Jordan would have made it.
RIP, Mr Rigney. My condolences and commiserations to his wife and family