Brandon Sanderson

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## About the Author

* **Genres**: Fantasy, Science Fiction
* **Writing Style**:
* **Books:** Brandon Sanderson Books

### Biography

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 brings 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.

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## Series

### The Reckoners series

* Genre: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Super-Hero
* Theme:

### Cosmere Universe

(reading order for subsequence Series)

* Genre: High Fantasy, Steampunk (gaslight)

#### Cosmere Short Stories

* Sixth of the Dusk (2014)
* Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (2013, short story published in Dangerous Women (2015) published in ?)

#### Cosmere Stand-alone Novels

* Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel (January 2023)
* Secret Project #2 (April 2023)
* Secret Project #3: A Cosmere Novel (July 2023)
* Secret Project #4: A Cosmere Novel (October 2023)

### Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

* Genre: Humorous, Children's Fantasy Adventure
* Theme: ages 8+
* Series list:
	1. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Book 1) (2007)
	2. Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Book 2) (2008) aka The Scrivener's Bones
	3. Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Book 3) (2009) aka The Knights of Crystallia
	4. Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens (2010) (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Book 4) aka The Shattered Lens
	5. The Dark Talent (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Book 5) (2018)
	6. Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Book 6) (2022)

### Infinity Blade

* Genre: Sword and Sorcery
* Theme:
* Publication: Audiobook and CD only
* Series list:
	1. Infinity Blade: Awakening (2011)
	2. Infinity Blade: Redemption (2013)

### Legion Novella series

* Genre: Meta-Human, Time Travel
* Theme: *A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours.*
* Series list:
	+ Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018) (Omnibus of the following)
		1. Legion (2012)
		2. Skin Deep (2014)
		3. Lies of the Beholder (2018)

### Skyward series

* Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Galaxy War, Space Opera, Aliens
	1. Skyward (The Skyward Series Book 1) (2018)
	2. Starsight (The Skyward Series Book 2) (2019)
	3. Cytonic (The Skyward Series Book 3) (2021)
	4. Defiant (The Skyward Series Book 4) (2023)
	+ Defending Elysium (2021)

#### Skyward Flight novella series

* Co-author: Janci Patterson
	1. Sunreach (Skyward Flight, Novella 1) (2021)
	2. ReDawn (Skyward Flight, Novella 2) (2021)
	3. Evershore (Skyward Flight, Novella 3) (2021)

## Other Works

### Wheel of Time

* finished Robert Jorden's series

1. The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time Book 12)
2. Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time Book 13)
3. A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time Book 14)

### Collections

* FirstBorn / Defending Elysium (2013)
* Shadows Beneath (2014) (with Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler and Dan Wells)
* Three Fantasies (2014)
* Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell / Perfect State (2015)

### Novellas

* Firstborn (2010)
* Perfect State (2015)
* Snapshot (2017)

### Short Stories

* The Hope of Elantris (2007)
* Dangerous Women — “Shadows For Silence in the Forests of Hell” — Warbreaker series #1.5
* Games Creatures Play (April 1st 2014 ) — "Dreamer" — No series

### White Sand Graphic Novels

* White Sand, Volume 1 (2016)
* White Sand, Volume 2 (2017)

## Awards

* 2005 Elantris - RT Reviewers' Choice Best Book Award, Best Epic Fantasy Novel Award
* 2007 Defending Elysium - Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC Science Fiction Award
* 2008 The Hero of Ages - RT Reviewers' Choice Best Book Award, Best Epic Fantasy Novel Award
* 2008 The Hero of Ages - LDStorymakers Whitney Awards, Best Speculative Fiction Award
* 2010 The Way of Kings - Whitney Awards, Best Speculative Fiction Award & Best Novel of the Year Award
* 2010 Towers of Midnight - Goodreads Choice Awards 2010, Best Fantasy of 2010
* 2011 The Way of Kings - David Gemmell Legend Award

(and many more)