The Wheel of Time is a fantasy epic conceived by James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (under the pen name Robert Jordan) and recently finished with the work of Brandon Sanderson. It is generally regarded as being one of the most detailed worlds in epic fantasy, and is one of the definitive works on the classic good vs. evil story. The series began with The Eye of the World, published in 1990, and finished in 2012 with the fourteenth volume, A Memory of Light.