If you haven’t already heard the news, you can read it on Tor’s official website:
http://www.dragonmount.com/News/?p=326
Or on Brandon Sanderson’s blog:
http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/585/Brandon-to-Finish-Wheel-of-Time
I think this is incredibly cool. Brandon Sanderson has entirely won me as a fan with has fantasy novels, Elantris, Mistborn, etc, and I can see him pulling off A Memory of Light with the intricacy and flair that will do Robert Jordan’s legacy justice. It’ll be a tough thing, and I’m sure he knows it, forging ahead with another author’s work while trying to take the many fans and their super-high expectations into account.
Seems like we must wait until 2009 to see the final result, but all I can say is that this development ups the chances of the series ending on a satisfactory note that ties the whole mess of story together.
I see that smile.