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Originally Posted by tspin46
My suggestion would be Terry Goodkind. Wizard's First Rule started off as a great beginning. The series promises to be as long as WoT and each book drags slower. He seems to have found the same formula as Robert Jordan. It would work.
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Jordan's formula wasn't deliberate. I believe WoT was originally
planned to be a typical fantasy trilogy.
Tolkien called LoTR "A tale that grew in the telling". So it was with WoT: the more Jordan wrote, the more he realized he had to write to tell the full tale.
I met him several years back when he was in town signing the then current WoT book. In response to a question of mine, he stated he knew what the last scene in the last book was, but wasn't certain exactly how he would get there. However, he was adamant it would
not be a twelve book series.
After I read the book he had signed, and saw how much it
didn't advance the plot, I said "He's right! It won't be a twelve book series. It will take at least
thirteen."
There's a term in chess called Zwischenzug. It referes to the situation where there is something you want to do, but you must do other things first to set up the conditions for it. That's what the last WoT book or two have been. Jordan was positioning pieces for the end game, and obviously working on concluding the series. The question after the last one was whether it would take one book or two. Jordan was then diagnosed with the blood disease that killed him, and determined to finish the series in one book, no matter how long.
Ironically, the concluding volume will be book twelve.
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Dennis