Infinity of Heaven
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Infinity of Heaven is a planned book series by Robert Jordan. No books have yet been released. Jordan is famous for his bestselling high fantasy series The Wheel of Time. The author currently believes that the series will consist of two sets of three books each. He has stated that he will finish the main sequence books of his current work and the prequels before he starts writing the new series. Work should be expected to start not before 2009 at best. Interestingly, there is an obvious play-upon-words in the title, considering the regarded as an endless saga The Wheel of Time, prior to his latest statements.
On the plot of Infinity of Heaven, Jordan has said: "My editor [who is also his wife, Harriet] says it will be people's chance to see a society like the Seanchan Empire [from The Wheel of Time], but that is simply because most of the action will take place in a culture much like Seanchan. The main male character, who is shipwrecked there, comes from a place that might he considered a cross between Elizabethan England and the Italian city-states of the Renaissance with touches of the seventeenth century. I intend him to be a man in his thirties, a man of some experience and worldliness in his own culture (though this does him only occasional good where he finds himself), in contrast to Rand's innocence and naivete. The major female character is a noblewoman of the land where he is shipwrecked; by the law, whatever is cast up on the shores of her estates belongs to her: the ship, its cargo -- its crew. Of course, a good many details will surely change between now and the commencement of writing (they always do), but that is the general form." Infinity of Heaven will have one culture that is "much more readily apparent as being 17th, early 18th century at technological level, cultural levels. I dislike the view of the world of the Wheel of Time as medieval."
The evidences are indisputable and Jordan also acknowledged the influence of James Clavell's Shogun over his new work (albeit bigger).
