Towers of Midnight
Final cover for Towers of Midnight
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| Author | Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson |
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| Cover artist | Darrell K. Sweet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Wheel of Time |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Tor Books, Orbit Books |
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November 2, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | The Gathering Storm |
| Followed by | A Memory of Light |
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, is the sequel to the novel The Gathering Storm, and the 13th book in the Wheel of Time series.
The novel is the second part of A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan's projected final book. Because of the amount of material to cover, it was agreed by Jordan's wife, Tor Books and Brandon Sanderson to break the final book into three separate books. All three books are written by Sanderson with the aid of extensive notes left by the late Jordan. The title Towers of Midnight was proposed by Sanderson, replacing the working title of A Memory of Light: Shifting Winds. It was released on November 2, 2010 and is composed of 328,000 words. The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. The novel consists of a prologue, 57 chapters, and an epilogue.
On August 30, 2010, Tor Books, in conjunction with the release of Sanderson's 2010 novel, The Way of Kings, announced that Sanderson would hand out bumper stickers throughout his promotional book tour. Some of the bumper stickers contained a code which would unlock one page of the Towers of Midnight. Fans were able to guess the codes without receiving a bumper sticker and unlocked an entire chapter (Chapter 8). The final code was placed in Venice, Italy. The codes were the chapter names of Towers of Midnight. This event was promoted by Tor at Brandon Sanderson's request, and was able to generate an unexpectedly high amount of involvement from the fan community.
Moving through Ghealdan, Perrin Aybara and his followers encounter the Children of the Light, of whom Jaret Byar and Dain Bornhald accuse Perrin (correctly) of killing two of their colleagues. When Galad Damodred discovers his stepmother Morgase Trakand among the refugees, Galad and Perrin agree to a trial with Morgase as the judge under Andoran law. Perrin reveals his ability to speak with wolves and claims as his defense the fact that the two men killed his wolf friends; but Morgase judges Perrin guilty of "illegal killing" under an obscure law governing mercenaries. Perrin agrees to abide by Galad's ruling after Tarmon Gai'don; but Galad does not immediately pronounce sentence.
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