Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 30 CDs, 38 hrs., $79.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1022-7
Jordan's epic is coming to its long awaited conclusion in the next book, so this installment (Book 13) exquisitely ratchets up the suspense. The last battle is coming, and Rand must garner the armies of nations, unite disparate allies, and as the...
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Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $34.99 (912p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2595-2
Fans of the Jordan's Wheel of Time epic have been waiting 13 books for the Last Battle, and they are about to be rewarded as Jordan/Sanderson (Towers of Midnight) bring the series to one final crescendo. It is time for Rand al'Thor to face the Dark...
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Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, read by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 33 CDs, 42 hours, $79.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1024-1
This 14th and final book in Jordan’s celebrated Wheel of Time fantasy series was completed after Jordan’s death by Sanderson, working from the author’s notes and outline. Narrators Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, who narrated previous installments...
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Edited by David Farland. Galaxy Press, $16 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-61986-502-0
The 32nd installment of the Writers of the Future contest, a showcase for new and exceptional speculative fiction and artwork, is an engaging mix of thought-provoking and inventive stories, accompanied by equally impressive illustrations. Several of
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Edited by David Farland. Galaxy Press, $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-61986-575-4
The 34th collection of finalists for
the Writers of the Future competition features expertly crafted and edited
stories and art, running the gamut from humorous to bone-chilling. Speculative fiction is interspersed with essays on the crafts of...
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7855-2
Sanderson (The Alloy of Law) brings back crime fighter Waxillium Ladrian for the excellent fifth Mistborn industrial revolution fantasy, which opens a new subseries. Nearly two decades have passed since Wax worked as a lawman for hire in the Roughs,
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7857-6
The sixth Mistborn industrial revolution fantasy (after Shadows of Self)—and the second featuring crime-fighter Waxillium Ladrian and his sidekick, Wayne—is more steampunk than dystopian. The novel kicks off with Wax’s wedding to Lady Steris, but...
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $27.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9116-2
Bestseller Sanderson’s first short fiction collection gives readers nine behind-the-scenes glimpses at the intricate cosmogony that ties together his various blockbuster fantasy series. In the Shardworlds, magic comes from pieces of a shattered...
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $34.99 (1,248p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2637-9
The much-anticipated third Stormlight Archive epic fantasy installment is classic Sanderson, with multiple story lines and unexpected twists and turns. Dalinar Kholin has to rebuild his Alethi army to fight the Voidbringers; he’s also grappling with
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-29779-2
Through a compilation of three novellas, Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive) takes readers on a science fiction thrill ride through the life and mind of a schizophrenic genius as he solves high-tech mysteries. Stephen Leeds has 47 different...
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Brandon Sanderson. Delacorte, $19.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-55577-0
In a mysterious world called Detritus where humans live below the surface, 16-year-old Spensa must overcome her deceased starfighter pilot father’s reputation as a coward following his alleged desertion. She has always hoped to follow in his...
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Brandon Sanderson, Author . Tor $24.95 (492p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1177-1
Sanderson's outstanding fantasy debut, refreshingly complete unto itself and free of the usual genre clichés, offers something for everyone: mystery, magic, romance, political wrangling, religious conflict, fights for equality, sharp...
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Brandon Sanderson, Author . Tor $27.95 (541p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1178-8
Sanderson's eerie second fantasy (after 2005's Elantris
), set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, "the Survivor of Hathsin," against the immortal Lord Ruler's 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and...
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Brandon Sanderson, Author . Tor $27.95 (590p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1688-2
Sanderson’s entertaining second Mistborn novel begins after most fantasy series end, when the team of brave and cunning heroes find that holding on to power is even harder than overthrowing the previous tyrant. Elend Venture, the scholarly new
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Brandon Sanderson, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (308p) ISBN 978-0-439-92550-1
In Sanderson’s (Elantris
) children’s debut, an over-the-top fantasy/adventure, librarians are evil because they control all the information in Hushland (America). They distort some facts and fabricate the rest. Alcatraz, meanwhile, is...
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Brandon Sanderson, Author . Tor $27.95 (572p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1689-9
This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy (after 2007's The Well of Ascension
) to a dramatic and surprising climax. Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend...
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Brandon Sanderson, Author . Tor $27.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2030-8
Epic fantasy heavyweight Sanderson (the Mistborn series) pens a powerful stand-alone tale of unpredictable loyalties, dark intrigue and dangerous magic. To keep a treaty made long ago, the king of Idris must send his daughter to marry Susebron, the...
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Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $27.99 (1,008p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2635-5
This massive tome is the first of a 10-part epic fantasy series from relative newcomer Sanderson (Mistborn), best known for his efforts to complete the late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. In a storm-swept world where history has dwindled into
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Brandon Sanderson. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59606-690-8
The quest for a stolen corpse in an alternate present-day U.S. dominates this sequel to 2012’s Legion. Yol Chay, owner of Innovation Information Incorporated, sends investigator Stephen Leeds in search of Panos Maheras, a researcher whose body may...
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3042-0
Sanderson gives the world of Scadrial the Wild West treatment in this rollicking adventure tale set 300 years after the popular Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy. This “side deviation” gives up swords for guns, and while the three-part magic system of...
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Brandon Sanderson. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (88p) ISBN 978-1-59606-485-0
Reality and illusion, sanity and insanity, are but subjective labels in this thought-provoking foray into a world where visions abound like the biblical demons the title evokes. Narrator Stephen Leeds, also known as “Master Legion,” alternately...
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Brandon Sanderson, illus. by Ben McSweeney. Tor Teen, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2032-2
Bestselling author Sanderson’s first YA novel is a delightful fantasy set in an alternate early 20th-century America made up of 60 loosely federated islands protected by Rithmatists, who use powerful chalk-drawing magic to hold at bay the voracious...
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Brandon Sanderson. Delacorte, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-74356-3
On the heels of his YA debut, The Rithmatist, Sanderson opens another series for teens with an ultraviolent yet playful entry into the superhero genre. More than a decade ago, a mysterious event known as Calamity created Epics—powerful beings...
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Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $28.99 (1088p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2636-2
Trapped in an interminable war with the Parshendi, the kingdom of Alethkar is further handicapped by quarreling aristocrats and the racial divisions between the elite lighteyes and downtrodden darkeyes. Against this background, Sanderson's sequel to
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Brandon Sanderson, read by a full cast. GraphicAudio, , adapted, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-62851-444-5
This first of a series of young adult fantasy novels, originally published in 2007, makes excellent use of cinematic music and digital sound effects. Multiple actors voice the central characters, who are oddly named after famous prisons: there’s the
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Brandon Sanderson, Author, Charlie McWade, Read by , read by Charlie McWade. Scholastic Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-545-02469-3
McWade's boyish voice and knack for nailing a frequent tongue-in-cheek tone aren't enough to elevate this adaptation of a frenzied fantasy to enjoyable listening status. On his 13th birthday, Alcatraz Smedry receives an unusual “gift&
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime, $19.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-60701-431-7
In Guran’s fifth edition of eclectic nightmares, new and veteran authors blend psychological terror and supernatural wonder into disturbing hybrid tales, which confront “that which we do not know.” Many of these stories first appeared in small-press
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Edited by Shawn Speakman. Grim Oak, $30 (768p) ISBN 978-1-944145-23-1
This powerhouse addition to the Unfettered series continues the tradition of donating proceeds to authors struggling with medical bills and boasts an incredible lineup of stories by pillars of the fantasy genre, many of whom contributed works set in
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Brandon Sanderson, illus. by Kazu Kibuishi. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-2508-4366-1
Opening this tongue-in-cheek title, readers will sense that no self-respecting creator would willingly call a book “the most boring ever” without having something up their narrative sleeve. For Sanderson (the Skyward series) and Kibuishi (the Amulet
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