It takes place in the Somewhere while Spensa is on her quest in the Nowhere.

This book (3.1) is from Jorgen Weight's (Jerkface) perceptive. Just a point of note this book does not need to be read before Cytonic (book 3). Great story, character development, and an all-out action-packed finale. He has appeared on the New York Times Best-Seller List multiple times, with five novels hitting the #1 spot.Ĭurrently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.Ī great book. The Emperor’s Soul won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella. The only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings. Two more novellas, Legion and The Emperor’s Soul, were released by Subterranean Press and Tachyon Publications in 2012, and 2013 brought two young adult novels, The Rithmatist from Tor and Steelheart from Delacorte. the Evil Librarians series have been released in new editions by Starscape, and his novella Infinity Blade Awakening was an ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. Four books in his middle-grade Alcatraz vs. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight were followed by the final book in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013. Tor has published Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy and its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, the first two in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.īrandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others.

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