rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time.
Book-by-book analysis of the Wheel of Time as it was being published — prophecy-parsing, timeline reconstruction and theory threads (Asmodean’s killer, most famously) that ran for literal years between volumes.
The group’s collaborative FAQ culture fed directly into the wikis that later organised the fandom.
Reading rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.