The Gathering Storm

✍ Scribed by Robert Jordan; Brandon Sanderson

• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Year: 2009;2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 683 KB
• Edition: !St mass market ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0765341530

✦ Synopsis

Review

The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades.The New York Times on The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time . . . is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English.Chicago Sun-Times

Jordan has a powerful vision of good and evilbut what strikes me as most pleasurable . . . is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world.Orson Scott Cardon The Wheel of Time

About the Author

Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with ""V"" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he has also written dance and theater criticism and enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting.

Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write The Wheel of Time books, one of the most important and best selling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 14 million copies sold in North America, and countless more sold abroad. Jordan died on September 16, 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis.

Brandon Sanderson is the bestselling author of books including Warbreaker, Elantris, The Way of Kings, and The Mistborn TrilogyMistborn, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages. He has also written Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a book for middle-grade readers, and is completing the final books in Robert Jordans Wheel of Time seriesThe Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Lightbased on Jordans notes and material. Sanderson teaches writing at Brigham Young University. He lives in Provo, Utah.