Shadows Of Self
Pages: 384
Edition: Hardcover
List Price: $27.99
Publisher: Tor/Tom Doherty
ISBN: 9780765378552
First entered: 10th, Oct 2015
Number of weeks: 1
Book Summary
The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with his first novel in the series since The Alloy of Law.With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America.The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are succeeded by wonderful new characters, chief among them Waxillium Ladrian, known as Wax, hereditary Lord of House Ladrian but also, until recently, a lawman in the ungoverned frontier region known as the Roughs. There he worked with his eccentric but effective buddy, Wayne. They are "twinborn," meaning they are able to use both Allomantic and Feruchemical magic.Shadows of Self shows Mistborn's society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts. This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax and Wayne, assisted by the lovely, brilliant Marasi, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife stops Scadrial's progress in its tracks. Shadows of Self will give fans of The Alloy of Law everything they've been hoping for and, this being a Brandon Sanderson book, more, much more.
Authors
Name: Brandon Sanderson
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
About the author:
Brandon’s major books for the beginning of 2016 are
The Bands of Mourning
, the sixth Mistborn novel, and
Calamity
, the finale of the Reckoners trilogy.
He also released his longest novella yet,
Mistborn: Secret History
, which explores behind the scenes of the original Mistborn Trilogy and thus is filled with spoilers for those three books; it also has some spoilers for The Bands of Mourning.
Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. 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 changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him
Dragonsbane
by Barbara Hambly.
Brandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. 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. 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. Four books in his middle-grade
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
series were released by Scholastic, and his novella
Infinity Blade Awakening
was an ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. 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 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. The Emperor’s Soul won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella. He has appeared on the New York Times Best-Seller List multiple times, with five novels hitting the #1 spot.
Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.
