Hailing Frequency interview featured in the Walden Books sci-fi/fantasy newsletter, issue 4 in October/November of 1993.
Readers who like their fantasy on the grand scale, with a large cast of characters, a far-ranging geography, and a deeply layered history have been turning to Robert Jordan’s epic, “The Wheel of Time,” of which The Shadow Rising is the fourth installment. (Previous volumes include The Eye of the World , The Great Hunt , and The Dragon Reborn , all from Tor.) The series is abundantly complex and resonates with depth, so recently when we asked Robert Jordan for a brief summary of the action to date, the author laughed.
I don’t think it’s possible to summarize the story briefly. There’s too much going on. For the last book, The Dragon Reborn , the publisher asked me for a synopsis of the first two books; it was to be sent out with review copies in case the reviewer had not read them. The synopsis was seven or eight pages long—I could not get it down any further. My editor tried to cut it down some, too, but she couldn’t find a way to take out more than a page or so on each book.
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