Stormlight Archive
First edition cover of The Way of Kings,
the first book in the series |
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| Author | Brandon Sanderson |
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| Illustrator | Isaac Stewart Ben McSweeney Greg Call Dan dos Santos Howard Lyon |
| Cover artist | Michael Whelan |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Tor Books (United States) |
| Published | August 31, 2010–present |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book |
| No. of books | 3 published, 10 planned |
The Stormlight Archive is an ongoing epic fantasy novel series written by American author Brandon Sanderson. The first of ten planned volumes, The Way of Kings, was published on August 31, 2010. The second, Words of Radiance, was published on March 4, 2014. The third, Oathbringer, was published on November 14, 2017.
From June to August 2010, Tor Books published sample chapters from The Way of Kings on its official website, along with an introduction by Sanderson. In its first week of release, The Way of Kings was #7 on The New York Times Best Seller list. In subsequent weeks the book was #11, #20, and #25.
In October 2010, Brandon Sanderson revealed that his tentative plan was to release the second book in the series in 2012, approximately two years after the release of the first book, due to writing the final book of The Wheel of Time, followed by the third book about a year later. However, after completing the first draft of A Memory of Light, Sanderson revealed the book would be pushed back to a 2014 release, almost four years after the first book. The second book was initially titled Highprince of War (referring to Highprince Dalinar), but Sanderson decided to focus the second book on Shallan, tentatively titling it The Book of Endless Pages and eventually settling on Words of Radiance with Highprince Dalinar's book planned as the third novel, titled Oathbringer.
Ten books are planned in the series, broken down into two sets of five books each. Sanderson describes the planned story arc of the second set of five book as a "sequel" to the first set, with some appearances of characters from the first set. The fourth book is planned to take place a year after the events of Oathbringer. The biggest timeskip in the series will occur in-between the fifth and sixth book.
The Stormlight Archive novella Edgedancer about Lift, set in-between Words of Radiance and Oathbringer, was originally published in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection on November 22, 2016. On April 19, 2017, Tor announced that a standalone edition of Edgedancer will be published on October 3, 2017. It was published on October 17, 2017.
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