The fantasy genre is a space where each author who cultivates it tends to spread their particular universe. Scatter, yes. Because creation is something between chaotic or completely ordered, depending on how you look at it. Something whimsical or fully causal.
And so, chance or predestination are the two extremes of the pendulum on which narrators such as the disappeared Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan and even earlier Tolkien profuse storylines and schemes began to be served on a tray (in addition to the adventures properly narrated) to generations of readers and incipient chroniclers of new worlds. Incipient current chroniclers who collected the witness as Rothfuss o Rowling (to cite two fantastic writers at the antipodes of their particular created worlds), up to his direct disciple Brandon Sanderson.
Beyond forays into the imaginary of Conan the Barbarian, for which purpose many qualify Robert Jordan As the most interesting plot developer, this American writer gave himself largely to his series The wheel of time that took hold and is still cited and reissued as a glorious world fantasy scene.
Robert Jordan's Top 3 Recommended Novels
The Great Hunt. (The Wheel of Time 2)
Made the due presentations that a new world deserves and requires, in this second part between the action rushes into an environment already familiar to us readers and among some perfectly characterized characters. And so we can live under his skin all the waste of imagination and different balances between passions, dangers, adventures, risks and other sensations always on the edge of life itself ...
Rand has survived his first confrontation with the wicked followers of the Dark One, but neither he nor his friends are safe, as the evil lord has freed the Forsaken, while heroes of all ages rise from the grave when the Horn of Valere brings them out of their sleep. Forced to face the forces of darkness, Rand decides to escape his fate, but the prophecy has to be fulfilled.
Due to its literary quality, its ambitious approach and its huge story, The Wheel of Time is the most important fantasy saga of the last thirty years. The reader who begins the journey with Rand, Mat and Perrin will not be able to abandon the journey until its uncertain and surprising end.
The Heart of Winter (Wheel of Time 9)
Well advanced the plot until that total of 14 novels that make up the series (the last 3 finished off by Brandon Sanderson, with its due habitual prequel to current times), we find on this occasion one of the most vibrant mythical struggles between that good and It is bad that in the battlefield of fantasy it splashes us recharged with the tinsel of the imagination, but at the end of the day shaking the terrain of the most ancient morality. A plot with remote evocations greek odyssey...
After the attack on the Palace of the Sun, Rand travels with Min leaving false leads to his enemies. In Cairhien, Cadsuane continues to prepare the strategy for the Last Battle.
Perrin organizes the rescue of Faile, who is a prisoner of the Sept of Sevanna, and in Tar Valon the intrigues of the White Tower take place. The Seanchan have conquered Ebou Dar and Mat is trapped there, along with his companions. Rand heads to Far Madding, the city where Power has no effect. There he hopes to face the renegade Asha'man, a condition he considers necessary to cleanse the Saidin of the Dark One's infection.
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time 1)
In the case of very long series, the old saying that the second parts are never good should go back to the beginning, to that first novel on which sometimes faith in the good manners of the writer on duty can more to cope with the usual intro. .
It is usually said that the beginnings of novels can determine the final reading of a large percentage of readers who open the book expectantly, but we already know that fantasy readers are patient, waiting for the exuberant story that is guessed when everything it's still too descriptive ...
Perhaps he could have chosen another installment of the series for this podium. But leaving out the beginning of everything seems to me to be a lack of respect for the global creation and a disservice to potential readers of a series always in need of a rigorous introduction.
Life for Rand Al'Thor and his friends in Emond's Field has been rather monotonous until a mysterious young woman arrives in town. Moiraine, a magician capable of harnessing the One Power, announces the awakening of a terrible threat.
That same night, the town is attacked by hideous bloodthirsty Trollocs, demihuman beasts that until then had been considered a legend. As Emond Field withstands the offensive, Moiraine and her guardian help Rand and his friends escape. .
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