The Wheel of Time has been a massive success over the past two decades. What kind of long standing influence do you see on the fantasy field from the series?
Robert Jordan was part of the generation of writers who grew up reading Tolkien and reacting to his books. I’m part of the next generation—the generation who grew up reading Robert Jordan and are reacting to his work. That generation is still growing—people today are still picking up The Eye of the World for the first time and getting engrossed in it. Then there are also beginning writers who are picking up my own work or the work of other writers from my generation such as Patrick Rothfuss and Brent Weeks, and reacting to what they read in our books, as we were reacting to Robert Jordan.
Each generation stands on the shoulders of the giants of the generation that came before, so in that way Robert Jordan’s books will continue to influence the genre for decades or even centuries to come.
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