Yesterday morning, Brandon Sanderson tweeted that he had finished the draft of A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. He estimates that the revision period should be six months, so the book is likely to be released in the fall of 2012, though Tor has not [...]
Three hundred years after the events in the original Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson’s The Alloy of Law gives a glimpse of what the world of Scadrial has become. The magic is the same, though it has evolved a little, with the addition of a couple new metals. The thriving city of Elendel now has trains [...]
Fantasy Faction has recorded a half-hour video interview with Brandon Sanderson while he was in Europe recently. The interview has some interesting discussion about The Way of Kings, the upcoming Mistborn sequel, and some of Brandon’s book recommendations. There was also some fresh Mistborn news. The Mistborn (pen-and-paper?) RPG “is a go” and should be [...]
With The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson begins a new richly-detailed fantasy series known as The Stormlight Archive. Clocking in at over 1,000 pages, it is only the very beginning of an epic story that will span an estimated ten books before its completion. There are three main protagonists, along with numerous side characters. Kaladin [...]
Information about Brandon Sanderson’s new Mistborn novel are starting to surface. The Alloy of Law, set 300 years after the Mistborn trilogy, is set in a world transforming from a medieval-style setting to something more along the lines of the 1800s. Electric lighting and railroads have come to Scadrial, but the Allomancers and Feruchemists haven’t [...]
The Last Battle approaches. While The Gathering Storm primarily tidied up loose ends that Robert Jordan left open in the previous book, Towers of Midnight is a sort of interim novel that sets everything up for the grand conclusion in the upcoming fourteenth installment. At long last, Rand is finally himself again. We got a [...]
The Wertzone is reporting that Brandon Sanderson will soon be revisiting his Mistborn series. Sanderson has lately been working on a Mistborn novella as a side project, which is currently 60,000 words and may end up being longer by the time it is finished. Tor will be publishing it in 2011. If that isn’t enough [...]
Brandon Sanderson has completed the final chapter of Towers of Midnight, the penultimate installment of the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. He updated his Twitter profile a few times with news about it. This is still the first draft, so there’s still work to be done before the publisher takes over. Towers of [...]
Warbreaker is one of those fantasy books that is more about a small group’s plans toward a great cause being pulled from its original path and used for a more sinister plan. Magic plays a very small role in this story, loathed by the main characters but surfacing to help them at useful moments. The [...]
The penultimate installment in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time is officially scheduled to be released on October 26th. Amazon had previously listed the twenty-sixth when they made the book available for pre-order, and Tor has now officially confirmed it. You can pre-order Towers of Midnight on Amazon.
