What does it feel like for you? I mean, this undertaking has been more than twenty years in the making, I guess. I mean the first one came out when? 1990?
Uh-huh.
What’s next for you? How does it feel to sort of bring this—at least the initial creation phase of it—to a close?
Well, it’s a tremendous mix of emotions. It’s very satisfying to have been able to complete his great work for him, when he couldn’t do it himself. That’s joyful, but it’s also very sad . I love these characters. I mean, they’ve been my friends for, as you say, over twenty years. And now they’re kind of set free. It is a retirement for me, except for the Encyclopedia of The Wheel of Time, which I am still working on with my colleagues. And that will be published when it gets done!
(laughs) I think Wheel of Time fans are patient.
Since there are more than 2000 named characters in the series, it’s quite an undertaking. But that is less emotionally involving for me than the work on the series has been.
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