The Wheel of Time: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Adaptations of Our Favourite Books

For The Walrus, I wrote about the fantasy book series The Wheel of Time, imagination, and the impossible challenge of adaptation. As young readers of the series, the make-believe world that existed in black ink on white pages was ours, and ours alone, to colour in. As Amazon launches its TV adaptation, how does it feel when someone else colours in that world for us?

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