RIP: Robert Jordan, 9/16/2007

[ECSNorway]

Gack. But it looks to be real, this time. Can't find any details yet aside from his blog page being slashdotted and his Wikipedia entry noting the basics...
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"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[jonathanlennox]

It was posted on Making Light (Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog): nielsenhayden.com/makingl...09381.html
His blog is, as you mentioned, slashdotted, but there's a mirror of his cousin's announcement here:
www.tarvalon.net/news.asp?article=501

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

*beats head against desk*
We all knew it was going to happen. And yet, it has.
This is not the ending. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it is an...
...no, this pretty much is the ending.
Farewell, Mr. Rigney. You'll be missed.
--Sam
(Please, please, let the publishers hire someone other than Kevin J. Anderson to finish the manuscript... please...)

[robkelk]

His SFWA obituary has been posted, so there's no chance of it being a false report this time...
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Of course, that probably won't stop some nimrod at Wikipedia from deleting all references to it from his entry until they see a "definitive" source on it. -- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.