Brandon Sanderson at Utopiales 2010 (Credit: Ceridwen via Wikimedia Commons)

Best
known for his COSMERE sequence of interconnected series, Brandon
Sanderson’s first publication was ELANTRIS (2005) which was followed in
2006 by MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE, the first volume of the popular
MISTBORN TRILOGY. Robert Jordan’s widow Harriet
McDougal Rigney
chose
Sanderson to
complete the
epic WHEEL
OF TIME
series. The
final volume was published
as three separated
books:
THE GATHERING STORM (2009),
TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT (2010),
and
A MEMORY OF LIGHT
(2013).

Other
aspects of the COSMERE include WAX
AND WAYNE (THE
ALLOY OF LAW [2011],
SHADOWS OF SELF [2015], THE
BANDS OF MOURNING [2016]),
THE
STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE (THE
WAY OF KINGS [2010],
WORDS
OF RADIANCE [2014]),
WARBREAKER
(2009), and
the graphic novel WHITE
SAND (2016,
with Rik Hoskin). Many of Sanderson’s numerous short COSMERE
works
including the Hugo Award-winning THE EMPEROR’S SOUL (2012), were collected in ARCANUM
UNBOUNDED: THE COSMERE COLLECTION (2016).

The prolific
Sanderson’s other works include the middle-grade ALCATRAZ
adventures (ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS [2007],  ALCATRAZ
VERSUS THE SCRIVENER’S BONES [2008], ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE KNIGHTS OF
CRYSTALLIA [2009],  ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE SHATTERED LENS [2010], THE
DARK TALENT [2016]) and the young adult series RECKONERS (STEELHEART
[2013], MITOSIS [2013], FIREFIGHT [2015], and CALAMITY [2016]. He
participates in the weekly Hugo award-winning podcast WRITING EXCUSES.

All
of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Brandon a magical birthday.

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Cover art by Alexander Nanitchkov

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