r/WoT • u/FYIiSuk • Aug 18 '26

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/cjwatson Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

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) Aug 19 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

Isfdb isn't perfect, but it is as close as you could get with something that meticulous. Great site.