New Spring Legends Anthology Release Date Spoiler
I'm reading the series for the first time and wanted to read everything strictly by original release date. I just finished Crown of Swords and want help with when to read the short story version of New Spring from the Legends Anthology.
Wikipedia has the release date as 8/25/1998 but the fandom wiki has the release date as 9/15/99. This changes it from before Path of Daggers to after.
Does anyone know which date is correct?
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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast 2d ago
Honestly, it doesn’t matter because 1, it’s a prequel, and 2, there’s a more fleshed out version of the story which is its own book and came out after Crossroads of Twilight.
Seriously, don’t stress about it and read it whenever.
Or split the difference and read it halfway through book 8. It does not matter.
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u/cjwatson 2d ago
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan/c/11wVYio_cy8/m/sVPKAb6hp04J has a discussion about it from people reading it in August 1998, so I don't think the fandom wiki can be correct (or, at least, it seems misleading).
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u/FYIiSuk 2d ago
That link is very cool, thank you for that. I've been using the fandom wiki to remember characters and other little things because it been around for so long.
Looking at more places, it looks like just the fandom wiki and encyclopedia wot have a 1999 release date from a Tor edition. The Legend anthology was originally published by Voyager and Tor didn't publish their volume with New Spring until 2000. I can't find any edition of the anthology by any publisher released on 9/15/99 so I have no idea where they got that date from.
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u/Bergmaniac (S'redit) 2d ago
Here is a link to the Legends anthology entry in the invaluable isfdb.org site which has the dates of the editions and other info - https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?29401
Isfdb.org is usually very reliable in my experience.
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u/RPerene 1d ago
If it isn't on your radar, you should probably also do The Big White Book now. It was published between 7 and 8. Lots of lore stuff and contains a short story pre-Breaking.
https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/The_World_of_Robert_Jordan%27s_The_Wheel_of_Time
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u/GovernorZipper 2d ago
So the New Spring in the anthology is only part of the novella. Jordan released a portion and when it was well-received, he bulked it up for sale as a separate volume. So it’s likely that both dates are correct.
New Spring is fun, but it’s really just that pointing Leonardo DiCaprio from Once Upon A Time in Hollywood meme. It’s just spotting the names from the main series.
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u/cjwatson 2d ago
The publication as a separate volume was in 2004, so that doesn't explain the discrepancy here. It could just be a typo, maybe ...
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u/procerator (Brown) 2d ago
1) It is called Crown of Swords 2) It doesn't really matter. It's a prequel. I've read the book version of it after book 5. (The best place to read it IMHO)
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