
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. the Evil Librarians seriesīrandon’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. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers that she’s never dreamed of. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life.

Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream: not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.īut even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life.

Then, when all hope was lost, the scarred, heartbroken half-Skaa Kelsier found in himself the powers of a Mistborn.Ī brilliant thief and natural leader, Kelsier recruits the underworld's smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, who each share one of his many powers and relish a high-stakes challenge.

For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the first book in the wildly successful Mistborn trilogy, now in trade paperback.įor a thousand years, ash fell and no flowers bloomed.
