
It’s one of the best-selling novel series of all time-over 90 million copies of the series have been sold worldwide-and yet, unless you are a nerd like me who reads science fiction and fantasy literature as a regular thing, up until now it’s more than possible you’ve never heard of it. Prior to Amazon deciding to adapt it into a TV show-a precursor to the streamer’s even more expensive Lord of the Rings fantasy series due next year-it has occupied an oddly contradictory space in the consciousness of the world: huge, and yet mostly invisible. The Wheel of Time is based upon a novel series by the same name, published by Robert Jordan starting in the 1990s and until his tragically early death at 58 in 2007, and then completed by Brandon Sanderson in 2013.
