Robert Jordan is the pen name of the American author James Rigney Jr. (1948âÂÂ2007). He used several during 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 asâ¦" This bibliography presents all works of Rigney's, sorted chronologically by their original pen name.
All O'Neal works were first published by Popham Press, Harriet McDougal's personal imprint.
All Jordan works were first published by Tor Books.
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. Jordan also compiled a well-known Conan chronology; this was printed in the 1987 book Conan the Defiant by Steve Perry.
All of Jordan's Conan books were repackaged into collected volumes in the 1990s:
Short stories
Encyclopedic works
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.
In 2012, Harriet McDougal donated a large volume of Jordan's material to the special collections of the College of Charleston. The library is in possession of several early unpublished works entitled John One-Eye, Morgan, April the 15th and You're a Nice Man or What Did I Do to Deserve That. These works are accessible to researchers, though some documents in the collection are restricted and will not be available for viewing until thirty years after his death (September 2037). Among the restricted folders is one entitled "From the Tale of Five Sisters".
In his lifetime, Jordan spoke about several other works he planned on writing after the completion of The Wheel of Times main sequence. As he died before its completion, these works were left 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.
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 Shà Âgun-esque series about a man in his 30s who is shipwrecked in an unknown culture, which would be similar to Seanchan culture.
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. There is a section among Jordan's contract records held by Charleston College marked Infinity of Heaven, dated 2004 and 2009.
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; he planned to publish only this Vietnam text under his actual name. Jordan was concerned it was a difficult topic, stating that there were "â¦an awful lot of people who haven't come to grips with the war, what it did to them, how it changed them." 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." He did however still intend to write it.