When word of Jordan’s death hit news wires, Sanderson, like many of Jordan’s fans, was devastated.
“I’ll be perfectly honest: When I heard the news, my first thought was of the big loss of someone extraordinary,” recalled Sanderson. “My second thought was . . . he was working on the last book, would we ever get to see it?”
His sentiment was echoed by many on “Wheel of Time” fan sites across the Internet, and soon Sanderson found himself becoming a topic on those sites.
“I’m relatively unknown as an author; I’ve only been published for a couple of years,” Sanderson said. “I did not know I was being considered.”
Indeed, the most prominent question on fan sites such as seemed to be: Who is Brandon Sanderson?
That question was met head-on by Sanderson as he began interacting with “Wheel of Time” fans both live and on the Web, and taking the time to introduce himself to those who were still new to his work.
“Overall, I’m absolutely thrilled that Brandon is the man for the job,” exclaimed Jason Denzel, site founder of Dragonmount.com. “It’s as if they picked the most talented fan they could find and handed him the series to finish.”
As confident as Denzel and the rest of the fans on his website have become in Sanderson, they admit that there remains a trickle of skepticism.
“The thing that we haven’t seen yet, and whether or not it can be pulled off, is if this book is going to feel like someone else wrote it or as if Robert Jordan wrote it himself,” said Denzel. “Our biggest worry is whether or not it’s going to have the feel of the rest of the series.”
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