The Great Hunt
Now in development for TV! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. TV series update: "Sony will produce along with Red Eagle Entertainment and Radar Pictures. Rafe Judkins is attached to write and executive produce. Judkins previously worked on shows such as ABC’s “Agents of SHIELD,” the Netflix series “Hemlock Grove,” and the NBC series “Chuck.” Red Eagle partners Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will executive produce along with Radar’s Ted Field and Mike Weber.
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- I discovered Patrick Radden Keefe's writing this past year, and loved his writing style enough to immediately pick up a second of his books.
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I've also been listening to a lot of audiobooks and was really impressed by Rosamund Pike's reading of The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (Book 2 of the Wheel of Time series) for Audible; enough that I'm waiting to listen to Book 3 to when her reading of it is released next summer.
- > Ditto for Wheel of Time, that instead is set in a distant future.
Wheel of Time is explicitly set in both the future and the past. That's why it's a "wheel".
(If you need an example, consider that Arthur Pendragon is, in the setting, a historical person who existed a couple thousand (?) years in the past, while at one point Egwene finds a much older Mercedes-Benz hood ornament in a museum.)
In the second book, The Great Hunt, the concept of a multiverse of alternative realities (that interact with each other!) is also introduced, which means that the setting is not necessarily in the same world as us. It is necessarily in a related world, where it's not clear what "related" means.
- I wonder if Robert Jordan was inspired by this when he wrote The Great Hunt (spoiler follows, I guess!) The protagonist experiences a hallucinatory battle with his arch nemesis, then learns that it was somehow projected in the sky:
"In the sky?" Rand said in wonder.
"Both of you," Moiraine said. "Your battle took place across the sky, in full view of every soul in Falme. Perhaps in other towns on Toman Head, too, if half what I hear is to be believed."
This then ruins his plans of keeping a low profile. Those books had some fun ideas.
- This year has been a year of fiction for me. I haven't hit my goal yet but I've got some time still!
Annihilation (Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer
Authority (Book two of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer
Acceptance (Book three of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer
Artemis - Andy Weir
The Breach (Book one of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee
Ghost County (Book two of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee
Deep Sky (Book three of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee
Runner - Patrick Lee
Signal - Patrick Lee
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
The Atlantis Gene - A.G. Riddle
The Eye of the World (Book one of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt (Book two of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn (Book three of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising (Book four of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven (Book five of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Way of Kings (Book one of the Stormlight Archives) - Brandon Sanderson
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm currently reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. Book two of the The Stormlight Archives.
I'd say the biggest surprises for me would be Patrick Lee. I DEVOURED these books. The Breach, Ghost County, and Deep Sky are a trilogy. They reminded me of X-files crossed with Navy Seals but that doesn't really begin to really describe the books.
I can't believe I got through so much of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The first book was so-so but the story really picked up in the second book. I'm getting to the part of the overall story that people say gets tedious and boring but I haven't experienced this at all yet.
I just finished The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson a few days ago. It's definitely one of my favorite books of all-time. It may be my favorite fantasy book but I won't know until I try to re-read it. I re-read The Hobbit every year. I never seem to get sick of it. It's going to be hard to knock this off it's thrown but damn is The Way of Kings close!
This is also the first year I've ever read so many works of the same author over and over. I probably won't do it again next year. Except for maybe Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan. I found it was _usually_ harder to get into the writing once I got such a familiar feel of their style and storytelling. This didn't hold true for Sanderson and Jordan they are still blowing me away.
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233649.The_Great_Hunt
Book two of the wheel of time.
Have never read them before...it is a lot of books.
