Robert Jordan is the pen name of the American author James Rigney Jr. He used several over the course of his career, though Jordan was by far his most well known. To complicate matters, some reprints later used the more recognisable Jordan name alongside the original pen name in the format "Robert Jordan writing as..." [1] [2] This bibliography presents all of Rigney Jr.'s works, sorted chronologically by their original pen name.
All O'Neal works were first published by Popham Press- Harriet McDougal's personal imprint.
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fallon Blood | 1980 | ||
| The Fallon Pride | 1981 | ||
| The Fallon Legacy | 1982 |
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne Raiders | 1982 | Rigney Jr.'s only book not to be edited by Harriet McDougal; published under Tor's Forge imprint. | [3] [4] |
All Jordan works were first published by Tor Books.
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conan the Invincible | 1982 | ||
| Conan the Defender | |||
| Conan the Unconquered | 1983 | ||
| Conan the Triumphant | |||
| Conan the Magnificent | 1984 | ||
| Conan the Destroyer | Adaptation of the second film | ||
| Conan the Victorious |
Some bibliographies incorrectly include Conan: King of Thieves; this was a working title of the second film and therefore also of the novel. The ISBN application was filed before the title revision. [5] Jordan also compiled a well-known Conan chronology; this was printed in the 1987 book Conan the Defiant by Steve Perry. [6]
All of Jordan's Conan books were repackaged into collected volumes in the 1990s:
| Title | Year | Publisher | Contents | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Conan Chronicles | 1995 | Tor | Conan the Invincible, the Defender and the Unconquered | |
| The Conan Chronicles II | 1997 | Legend (UK) | Conan the Magnificent, the Triumphant, the Destroyer and the de Camp essay "Conan the Indestructible" | |
| The Further Chronicles of Conan | 1999 | Tor | Conan the Magnificent, the Triumphant and the Victorious |
| No. | Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Eye of the World | 1990 | Repackaged for younger readers as two volumes, From the Two Rivers (with a new prologue) and To the Blight | |
| 2 | The Great Hunt | Repackaged for younger readers as two volumes, The Hunt Begins and New Threads in the Pattern | ||
| 3 | The Dragon Reborn | 1991 | ||
| 4 | The Shadow Rising | 1992 | ||
| 5 | The Fires of Heaven | 1993 | ||
| 6 | Lord of Chaos | 1994 | Locus Award nominee, 1995 | [7] |
| 7 | A Crown of Swords | 1996 | ||
| 8 | The Path of Daggers | 1998 | ||
| 9 | Winter's Heart | 2000 | ||
| 10 | Crossroads of Twilight | 2003 | ||
| 0 | New Spring | 2004 | Prequel. Expanded version of a 1998 short story. | |
| 11 | Knife of Dreams | 2005 | ||
| 12 | The Gathering Storm | 2009 | Completed by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death | |
| 13 | Towers of Midnight | 2010 | [8] [9] | |
| 14 | A Memory of Light | 2013 | [10] |
Short stories
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Strike at Shayol Ghul | 1996 | Posted online, republished in The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time , 1997 | |
| New Spring | 1998 | Published in Tor's Legends anthology, edited by Robert Silverberg, later expanded into full novel |
Encyclopedic works
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time | 1997 | written in collaboration with Teresa Patterson | |
| The Wheel of Time Companion | 2015 | Based on Jordan's series and notes. Edited by Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons |
Jordan's work was also adapted into a graphic novel series by Dabel Brothers, beginning in 2005. Only the first five issues of New Spring were published in Jordan's lifetime.
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warrior of the Altaii | 2019 | Written in the late 1970s and published posthumously | [11] |
Jordan spoke about several works he planned on producing after the completion of The Wheel of Time's main sequence. As he died before its completion, these works were left unfinished or unwritten.
Jordan spoke several times about writing additional works in the setting of The Wheel of Time, but did not leave detailed notes. Brandon Sanderson, who completed the unfinished Wheel of Time conclusion, has ruled out writing these side books, noting it would have gone against Jordan's wishes. [17] [18]
In the early 1990s Jordan began discussing his next fantasy trilogy, to follow the completion of The Wheel of Time. It was initially planned as a single book entitled Shipwreck but Jordan later described it as two trilogies, with the second book titled Shipwrecked and the series titled Infinity of Heaven. He said that it would be a Shōgun -esque series about a man in his 30s who is shipwrecked in an unknown culture, which would be similar to Seanchan culture. [19] [20]
The main male character, who is shipwrecked there, comes from a place that might he considered a cross between Elizabethan England and the Italian city-states of the Renaissance with touches of the seventeenth century. I intend him to be a man in his thirties, a man of some experience and worldliness in his own culture (though this does him only occasional good where he finds himself), in contrast to Rand's innocence and naivete. The major female character is a noblewoman of the land where he is shipwrecked; by the law, whatever is cast up on the shores of her estates belongs to her: the ship, its cargo—its crew.
— Robert Jordan in a letter to Tom McCormick, December 1993 [21]
Jordan stated in 2005 that he had many ideas in his head and a good deal of it planned out but nothing yet on paper. [22]
Jordan planned to write a book about his experiences in the Vietnam War as far back as the 1970s. He adopted various pen-names through his career and never used his actual name- Rigney Jr., which was reserved for this Vietnam text. [23] Jordan was concerned it was a difficult topic, stating that there were "...an awful lot of people who haven't come to grips with the war, what it did to them, how it changed them." [24] By 2000 enough time had passed that he was doubtful about its cultural relevance, stating "If I wrote that Vietnam novel now, it would be a historical novel, and I'm not sure anybody's really interested anymore." [23] He did however still intend to write it. [25]