Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan had a “maze-like” filing system, according to Alan Romanczuk, one of Jordan’s staff, who appears on a new video posted on YouTube consisting of short snippets of people associated with the production of Jordan’s masterpiece.
Speaking of the amount of background material Jordan had to the series, Romanczuk said “this translated in his filing system into something I’ve never encountered before. He had what I can only describe as a maze-like hierarchical system of files.”
The last three books in The Wheel of Time are being written by established fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who was selected by the widow of the original author, Robert Jordan, after tragically passed away in September 2007 to finish Jordan’s masterpiece. The first book, The Gathering Storm, has already been finished and will be published internationally on October 27.
Sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books has published on YouTube a series of excerpts from a recent video with acclaimed American sci-fi author Ray Bradbury.
Bradbury, now 89 years old, is best known from his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, which depicts a future world in which firemen spend much of their time hunting down and burning books. It has been interpreted variously as a critique of certain aspects of American society of that period. The book has been made into at least one film and has been adapted into other medium.
However the author has continued to write for the past fifty years, publishing a new novel, Farewell Summer, in 2006 and others in 2002, 2001 and so on.
In the Tor interview snippets (below), Bradbury discusses various portions of his work and personal history. For example, he describes meeting a carnival performer named “Mr Electrico” who, among with his colleagues, was the spur for Bradbury to begin writing in the first place.
In another snippet, Bradbury talks about overcoming his fear of flying; he first flew on Delta Airlines only after drinking three double martinis first.
