...and advance copies are already out for some people (cf. Jason's vomitous paean on Dragonmount). The theory sounds grounded, so I'll just say this:
1. If you got hints from someone else, you're almost certainly right
2. If you are right (hints or no), it's got to be a Pyrrhic victory with so little time left
3. If you are right, what a waste of Demandred...
We'll all know in a couple of months (or less, if they do advance the release date).
1. If you got hints from someone else, you're almost certainly right
2. If you are right (hints or no), it's got to be a Pyrrhic victory with so little time left
3. If you are right, what a waste of Demandred...
We'll all know in a couple of months (or less, if they do advance the release date).
Tor isn't sending ARCs for WOT books, Harriet forbade it and Doherty enforces this (the publicists have tried to convince him to relent, it didn't work). They didn't do it for TGS and TOM, they don't do it for AMOL either. Most reviewers who get any review copy all got final copies of the book, are for the most part pros from the big media, and still got their copy only a few days before release. Most copies to bloggers etc. were actually sent on the eve of release (Larry, I think, is one of the few who got a copy a few days in advance. Linda and me - I was still involved with the 13th Depository site a the time - got our copies 24 hours before release as our site was only a few months old at the time... Mine anyway, Linda is from Australia and got her copy quite later as the Tor agent was forbidden to use air mail).
Jason and co. (a very select club of WOT webmasters from the old days Harriet has met personally and trust... Theoryland's, EWOT's, DM's and TV.net's) have not received ARCs, they've acted as beta-readers for Team Jordan, for all three books. For TOM (perhaps for TGS too, I don't know) Harriet was so paranoid she asked Brandon to print and photocopy these "beta copies" in person as she feared she was too well-known in Charleston to do this herself. No ebook/eletronic copies were made, and the hard copy ones were retrieved after the beta-reading.
There's very little chance of any leak, not from the beta-reader or non existing ARCs anyway. That leaves blunders at Tor or the printers, but we were told security was pretty tight... even at Tor staff including the publicists involved with it were not allowed to read the book until fairly late in the game. Tor even decided the final line edits would take place out of the place (unlike in RJ's days) - they've hired RJ's assistant Maria to do that job from Charleston. Harriet's slightly (!) paranoid about spoilers and didn't take any chance.
This message last edited by DomA on 05/11/2012 at 08:34:11 PM
[Mik's Warp] - Demandred is.....*click to find out*
05/11/2012 01:06:42 PM
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There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)...
05/11/2012 02:10:07 PM
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Nah.. forget that
05/11/2012 08:29:53 PM
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Re: There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)...
06/11/2012 12:40:54 PM
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I say Roederan is a better choice simply because of where he is located
06/11/2012 11:01:28 PM
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Re: I say Roederan is a better choice simply because of where he is located
07/11/2012 09:42:00 AM
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Plausible, albeit antilclimactic *NM*
05/11/2012 06:32:38 PM
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Unless Mat is Demandred, at this point it will be anticlimactic. *NM*
06/11/2012 04:02:38 AM
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You've tried too hard...
05/11/2012 07:53:41 PM
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Will be so disappointed if the Shadow's greatest (non-crazy) leader is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky
05/11/2012 08:57:59 PM
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I doubt Mat will kill him personally but
05/11/2012 09:24:48 PM
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I don't know
06/11/2012 02:01:41 AM
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My prediction of how it plays out...
06/11/2012 07:12:15 AM
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I don't think that's likely
06/11/2012 06:04:55 PM
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Re: I don't think that's likely
06/11/2012 11:21:21 PM
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Re: I don't think that's likely
07/11/2012 08:14:28 PM
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Re: I don't think that's likely
07/11/2012 09:05:07 PM
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Re: I don't think that's likely
08/11/2012 05:52:16 PM
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It sounds like we're at the same stage of vision of the AOL
08/11/2012 07:48:17 PM
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Statistics refute some of that...
09/11/2012 07:35:59 AM
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We're not talking about the same things...
09/11/2012 11:31:12 PM
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The real question is how much of that was caused by the Bore and the Collapse
09/11/2012 11:50:20 PM
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It doesn't mean no one in this Age can be at Talented or Intelligent.
09/11/2012 11:43:26 PM
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Re: It doesn't mean no one in this Age can be at Talented or Intelligent.
10/11/2012 07:34:34 AM
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You're putting the Evil on a pedestal.
06/11/2012 03:12:38 AM
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... is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky
06/11/2012 08:45:02 PM
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Mat is essentially the man (men) who wrote the books Demandred studied
06/11/2012 10:42:40 PM
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I didn't try hard at all; Demandred found me...
06/11/2012 03:31:41 PM
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My biggest contention with Demandred being with the Sea Folk
06/11/2012 10:54:50 PM
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Re: My biggest contention with Demandred being with the Sea Folk
07/11/2012 12:07:02 AM
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Well, it instantly gives the Shadow access to attacking every coastal city...
07/11/2012 10:32:23 AM
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If he married Nynaeve and Moiraine he'd have his wives at Rand's side in the Pit too....
07/11/2012 03:28:38 PM
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I find that approach unnecessarily convoluted. Just hit them with 1 billion Trollocs and crush them.
08/11/2012 07:00:36 AM
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May I ask some practical questions?
08/11/2012 05:28:41 PM
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Re: May I ask some practical questions?
08/11/2012 10:35:38 PM
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Re: May I ask some practical questions?
10/11/2012 12:09:15 AM
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Re: May I ask some practical questions?
10/11/2012 03:11:59 AM
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LOL ... Seems more than a little far fetched *NM*
10/11/2012 06:17:34 AM
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Well, they hadn't planned on them being Traveling grounds as they didn't know about
09/11/2012 02:57:16 PM
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Re: Well, they hadn't planned on them being Traveling grounds as they didn't know about
09/11/2012 09:03:14 PM
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I know. I'm saying they were not doing this with Traveling in mind.
09/11/2012 11:57:34 PM
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Re: I know. I'm saying they were not doing this with Traveling in mind.
10/11/2012 10:08:04 PM
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I see what you are getting at ... And I see how Zaida used it to her advantage
11/11/2012 07:45:19 AM
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Re: I see what you are getting at ... And I see how Zaida used it to her advantage
12/11/2012 02:57:08 PM
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Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing
12/11/2012 04:11:50 PM
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Re: Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing
12/11/2012 06:01:33 PM
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Well there is also the fact that Harine pretty much tells us she MUST make a Bargain
12/11/2012 06:51:24 PM
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Re: Well there is also the fact that Harine pretty much tells us she MUST make a Bargain
12/11/2012 09:30:57 PM
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Not to belabor the point
12/11/2012 10:56:39 PM
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Re: Not to belabor the point
13/11/2012 12:46:21 AM
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I think you are way off base on the economics
13/11/2012 01:24:35 AM
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