Brandon Sanderson, widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, begins a grand cycle of his own, with The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.
Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
作者簡介
布蘭登．山德森 Brandon Sanderson
西元1975年生於美國內布拉斯加州首府林肯。
2005年出版首部小說《諸神之城：伊嵐翠》，隨即獲得《浪漫時代》奇幻史詩大獎，並連續入選2006、2007年美國科奇幻地位最高的新人獎項──約翰．坎伯新人獎。美國連鎖書店邦諾更每每將他的書列為頭號選書。之後陸續寫下「迷霧之子」三部曲（美國亞馬遜全系列500名讀者熱情評價，平均4.5顆星推薦）、「Alcatraz」系列、《Warbreaker》等書，《出版人週刊》、《軌跡雜誌》、《美國圖書館協會誌》、《克科斯評論》都給予他的著作高度評價。他以這樣驚豔文壇和讀者的超級新人之姿，讓「哈利波特」的美國出版社Scholastic高價買下他「Alcatraz」系列的版權，並且讓大出版社Tor一口氣簽下他四本書的合約。2009年10月出版「時光之輪」接班作《光之回憶1：風起雲湧》，甚至打敗丹布朗新書《失落的符號》，空降紐約時報排行榜冠軍！
目前任教於楊百翰大學，現居猶他州的歐瑞市。
作者官網：www.brandonsanderson.com
著作：《諸神之城：伊嵐翠》、「迷霧之子」三部曲、「Alcatraz」系列、《Warbreaker》、《時光之輪：光之回憶1 風起雲湧》、「The Stromlight Archives」系列
Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He is in the process of completing Robert Jordan’s bestselling Wheel of Time series.
