A Memory of Light has been pushed back!

Again!

And I was so looking forward to October 2012 :(

Previously, the initial date was set at October 2011; now it's been pushed as far back as January 2013.

I'm guessing it's probably due to current writer Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan's people trying to make the book perfect-er. It is the big kahuna of the series, the one book that fans have been waiting for 22 years.

[Yes, the first book was released in 1990. How time flies.]

Tor's website even released first parts (as in, PoVs) of both the prologue and Chapter 1. They're short bits, nothing much to shout about.

Prologue's about Jarid Sarand, whom I've completely forgotten about. Sarand is one of the rebels against the Elayne's throne Succession, which was so painfully (and rather needlessly) drawn out and boring that when re-reading the later books, I skim through chapters involving her. If there was ever a definition for 'filler', the Succession arc would be it.

[Spanning two to three encyclopedia-sized tomes /fml]

The Chapter 1 portion is disappointingly short, about Rand meeting up with Perrin again and catching up.

The publisher's site says that in the coming months more of the prologue and Chapter 1 will be released (same as previous releases), so hopefully there'd be something substantial to tide us over till 2013.

Sigh. That Mayan prophecy better not come true till after I've read that book!