The Great Hunt
by Robert Jordan · first published 1990
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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 Grea
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…Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 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.
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?” ↗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…
on “When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky” ↗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.
on “Ask HN: What book are you reading?” ↗…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…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗…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…
on “There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)” ↗