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Watch this awesome video from Tor.com as Greg Manchess creates his ebook cover for Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos in time lapse. So awesome! Great music as well as excerpts from the audiobook makes this one of the best pieces of promotional material I have ever seen!
Here is an extended version:
This is fascinating interview as well as visually appealing. I think a reissue is needed for all the print novels.
Welcome to my favorite reads of 2009! Below is a list by category of the books I most enjoyed reading in 2009. Obviously, this a list based on my personal tastes (which often clash with the accepted preferences I’ve found) and does not mean that other 85 books I read in 2009 are no good, [...]
# Genre: Epic/High Fantasy
# Hardcover: 784 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books; Signed edition
# Publication Date: October 27, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0765302306
# ISBN-13: 978-0765302304
# Author Blog: Robert Jordan
# Author Website: Brandon Sanderson
In reviewing a novel in a series as popular as the Wheel of Time, a reviewer faces a dilemma: Does the reviewer toe the party line and [...]
I have gotten my copy, read it, and written my review. When the moratorium on posting reviews is lifted, you will find my pretty much spoiler free review here. I will say that I loved the book, did notice some differences between Sanderson’s and Jordan’s style, but also noticed how careful Sanderson was to include [...]
Images and sound clips courtesy of Macmillan Audio
The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Read by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer
26 CDs | 34.5 CDs | $69.99
On sale 10/27/09 and available for digital download
Any registered user of Tor.com can now download Chapter 2 (audio version) of Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson’s The Gathering Storm.
For all you Wheel of Time fans out there, here is Chapter One of Brandon Sanderson’s novel, based on Robert Jordan’s notes and desires. The Gathering Storm is slated to be the first of two (maybe three?) novels that will complete the tale of Rand, Nynaeve, Min, Elayne, and Egwene.
Registration at Tor.com is required. The [...]
