OK. Now, can we talk about the new epic fantasy that you want to do. Is there any story; have you released any of the information about what kind of story you want to do?
I haven’t, but I can tell you about it. I’m pretty open on these things. One of the ideas that made me want to write this book—a series; I’m calling it Stormlight Archive . I’m not sure if that will be the final series title. I don’t know. These things always change. But I love that feel. Anyway, it’s got a good feel to it. The Way of Kings …When I was growing up reading fantasy, and even still when I read fantasy, one thing kind of makes me sorrowful about the fantasy genre. Not that I dislike it, but it wakens sorrow in me, and that is, there tends to be a theme in fantasy that the magic is going away. Whether it’s you read Tolkien, the elves are leaving. The world is becoming more like our world. This happens in Terry Brooks; this happens in David Eddings. This happens in a lot of these great fantasy series I grew up reading, and it still happens. The fantasy is this thing that’s growing more rare. You know, it’s the Last Wizard, the Last Unicorn, the last…These sorts of things. And there’s a little bit of a sense of loss in me for that. And I really wanted to do a story which is about magic coming back. An epic fantasy about the return of magic to the world after a long period of it being gone. Which is kind of the opposite. There are no mentors around who are great, powerful magicians that can teach you how to use it, because nobody—nobody knows. It’s been thousands of years. So I want to tell the story about the return of magic to the world, right about the time that it’s time it’s needed because of various things that are showing up. So, that’s going to be one of the themes of this book; it’s the return of magic.
OK. I’ll definitely be looking forward to that one. I actually…I think that’s it. You’ve been absolutely wonderful.
Well, thank you very much.
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