I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan's notes. If you're already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart, The Emperor's Soul, and Alcatraz vs.

Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a.

These include the Legion series, as well as Perfect State and Snapshot. Many of my adult readers enjoy all of those books as well, and many of my YA readers enjoy my adult books, usually starting with Mistborn.Īdditionally, I have a few other novellas that are more on the thriller/sci-fi side. For young readers I also have my humorous series Alcatraz vs. I also have three YA series: The Rithmatist (currently at one book), The Reckoners (a trilogy beginning with Steelheart), and Skyward. If you've read all of my adult fantasy novels and want to see some behind-the-scenes information, that collection is a must-read. In November 2016 all of the existing Cosmere short fiction including those novellas was released in one volume called Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection. This includes The Stormlight Archive, both Mistborn series, Elantris, Warbreaker, and various novellas available on Amazon, including The Emperor's Soul, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. Most readers have noticed that my adult fantasy novels are in a connected universe, called the Cosmere. Also out that year was the final volume of the Stephen Leeds saga, Legion: Lies of the Beholder, which was also published in an omnibus edition, Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds, that includes all three volumes. The follow-up, Starsight, was released December 2019. November 2018 marked the release of Skyward, the first book in a new YA quartet about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world under alien attack. This series is my love letter to the epic fantasy genre, and it's the type of story I always dreamed epic fantasy could be. In November 2020 we saw the release of Rhythm of War-the fourth massive book in the New York Times #1 bestselling Stormlight Archive series that began with The Way of Kings-and Dawnshard (book 3.5), a novella set in the same world that bridges the gaps between the main releases. I'm Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.

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