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Durante mil años han caído las cenizas y nada florece. Durante mil años los skaa han sido esclavizados y viven sumidos en un miedo inevitable. Durante mil años el Lord Legislador reina con un poder absoluto gracias al terror, a sus poderes e inmortalidad. Le ayudan «obligadores» e «inquisidores», junto a la poderosa magia de la «alomancia». Pero los nobles, con frecuencia, han tenido trato sexual con jóvenes skaa y, aunque la ley lo prohíbe, algunos de sus bastardos han sobrevivido y heredado los poderes alománticos: son los «nacidos de la bruma» (mistborns). Ahora, Kelsier, el «superviviente», el único que ha logrado huir de los Pozos de Hathsin, ha encontrado a Vin, una pobre chica skaa con mucha suerte... Tal vez los dos unidos a la rebelión que los skaa intentan desde hace mil años puedan cambiar el mundo y la atroz dominación del Lord Legislador.

Elantris était jadis la capitale de l'Arelon. Gigantesque, magnifique, peuplée de demi-dieux immortels et bienveillants, auparavant humains mais transformés par la puissance du Shaod, qui usaient de leurs pouvoirs pour le bien de tous. Mais voilà dix ans, sans le moindre avertissement, le Shaod, cette immémoriale force magique, s'est corrompu. Les habitants d'Elantris se sont flétris, littéralement, devenant des créatures pathétiques à l'apparence de lépreux. La ville elle-même a pris le deuil, un deuil crasseux et délabré. Kae, la nouvelle capitale de l'Arelon, s'est tapie à l'ombre d'Elantris. Quand la princesse Sarene de Teod y arrive pour épouser le prince Raoden, on lui apprend que ce dernier vient de périr. Choisissant néanmoins de demeurer à Kae, Sarene va découvrir que l'Arelon, tout comme le Teod, sont désormais la cible des ambitions impérialistes des fanatiques religieux de Fjordell, menés par le Haut Prêtre Hrathen. Mais ni Sarene ni Hrathen ne se doutent que le prince Raoden a survécu. Atteint à sont tour par la malédiction qui a dévasté Elantris, ce dernier y a secrètement été exilé sur ordre de son père. La lutte qu'il va entamer pour libérer les misérables enfermés là va amorcer une série d'événements susceptibles de redonner espoir à l'Arelon, et peut-être de révéler au monde le secret caché derrière les murailles d'Elantris...

Elantris était jadis la capitale de l'Arelon. Gigantesque, magnifique, peuplée de demi-dieux immortels et bienveillants, auparavant humains mais transformés par la puissance du Shaod, qui usaient de leurs pouvoirs pour le bien de tous. Mais voilà dix ans, sans le moindre avertissement, le Shaod, cette immémoriale force magique, s'est corrompu. Les habitants d'Elantris se sont flétris, littéralement, devenant des créatures pathétiques à l'apparence de lépreux. La ville elle-même a pris le deuil, un deuil crasseux et délabré. Kae, la nouvelle capitale de l'Arelon, s'est tapie à l'ombre d'Elantris. Quand la princesse Sarene de Teod y arrive pour épouser le prince Raoden, on lui apprend que ce dernier vient de périr. Choisissant néanmoins de demeurer à Kae, Sarene va découvrir que l'Arelon, tout comme le Teod, sont désormais la cible des ambitions impérialistes des fanatiques religieux de Fjordell, menés par le Haut Prêtre Hrathen. Mais ni Sarene ni Hrathen ne se doutent que le prince Raoden a survécu. Atteint à son tour par la malédiction qui a dévasté Elantris, ce dernier y a secrètement été exilé sur ordre de son père. La lutte qu'il va entamer pour libérer les misérables enfermés là va amorcer une série d'événements susceptibles de redonner espoir à l'Arelon, et peut-être de révéler au monde le secret caché derrière les murailles d'Elantris…

The twelfth volume in the bestselling Wheel of Time series

Durante los últimos mil años, han caído las cenizas y nada florece. Durante mil años, los skaa han sido esclavizados y han vivido sumidos en un miedo inevitable. Durante mil años, el Lord Legislador ha reinado con un poder absoluto gracias al terror y a su divina invencibilidad por la poderosa magia de la «alomancia».Pero vencer y matar al Lord Legislador fue la parte sencilla. El verdadero desafío lo constituirá sobrevivir a las consecuencias de su caída. Tomar el poder tal vez resultó fácil, pero ¿qué ocurre después?, ¿cómo se usa el poder? Una amena refl exión sobre estrategia política y religiosa en el marco de una aventura épica con luchas estilo kung fu gracias a los siempre misteriosos poderes de la alomancia...La trilogía Nacidos de la Bruma [Mistborn] es una excepcional muestra de una nueva fantasía épica con magia, leyenda y todo tipo de misterios.

Following the success of Legion, Legion: Skin Deep charts another fast moving and gripping adventure for Stephen Leeds, AKA Legion. Leeds is a genius, his mind contains too much information. And to cope it his split his skills off into individual personalities. They crowd his head and he lives with them in a vast empty mansion. While he can call on any one of them to solve a problem he also walks a line across an all-consuming madness. In development for television Brandon Sanderson's Legion stories are gripping psychological thrillers, perfect for any fan of speculative fiction. They will resonate particularly strongly with fans of stories about that other tortured crime-fighting genius: Sherlock Holmes. Legion: Skin Deep is an all-new, action-packed novella starring one of the most fascinating and charismatic heroes ever.

They told David it was impossible - that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet, Steelheart - invincible, immortal, unconquerable - is dead. And he died by David's hand. Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life more simple. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And there's no one in Newcago who can give him the answers he needs. He found some of those answers in FIREFIGHT. Now, he has to decide what to do with them ...Calamity is about what you do to fill your heart once you have vengeance

Fans of Robert Jordan and George RR Martin alike have found a new champion of epic fantasy in Brandon Sanderson. And now, in the first of two sequels to The Alloy Of Law the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn. It is more than 300 years after the events of the The Final Empire shaped Scadrial. Waxillium Ladrian has returned to the capital city of Elendel from the far flung roughs. Elendel is crisscrossed by canals and railways and towers reach for the sky but this is still a city of dangers and of magic; Allomancy and Feruchemy can still change the world. Wax faces many more adventures. Sanderson is a master of rich worlds, appealing characters and gripping plots and his return to Mistborn shows him at the height of his powers.

Sanderson's entertaining second Mistborn novel begins after most fantasy series end, when the team of brave and cunning heroes find that holding on to power is even harder than overthrowing the previous tyrant. Elend Venture, the scholarly new Lord Ruler of Luthadel, clings to power while Luthadel's aristocrats and merchants grumble and two enemy armies—one led by Elend's father, Lord Straff—camp outside the city gates. Fortunately, Elend can rely on help from his lover and unofficial court assassin, the young allomancer Vin, but her magical metal-using ability makes her a target. An orphan of decidedly low origins, Vin is also having trouble adapting to her position as royal consort, especially since the underclass skaa, newly freed by Elend, look to her as their protector. Meanwhile, the ancient evil known as the Deepness is rising once again. This entertaining read will especially please those who always wanted to know what happened after the good guys won.

Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling. Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping -- based on their correspondence -- to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god. But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself. A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.

To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin kills the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists called the Deepness is back, along with ashfalls and earthquakes. Now, humanity appears to be doomed, in this conclusion to the Mistborn trilogy.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris," dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mistborn." For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot. But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about her own strange Cytonic gifts.The Superiority didn't stop in it's fight for galactic dominance while she was gone, though. Spensa's team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off, and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it's only a matter of time until humanity--and the rest of the galaxy--falls.

All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumours of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars - and it was terrifying. What she learned turned her world upside down. Everything Spensa's been taught is a lie.But Spensa also learned a few things about herself - and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.Praise for Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times Bestselling Reckoners series:'Another win for Sanderson . . . he's simply a brilliant writer' Patrick Rothfuss'Action-packed' EW.com'Compelling . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store' AV Club

Infinity Blade. La espada infinita: El despertar, escrito por Brandon Sanderson, autor de otros libros como Aleación de ley o El imperio final (Nacidos de la Bruma I), es la novela de narrativa fantástica basada en el videojuego que triunfa en la red, con más de diez millones de copias vendidas en iTunes. Originalmente publicado como e-book, con más de 75.000 copias vendidas en las primeras semanas. N.º 4 en la lista de más vendidos de iTunes, con un ráting de 4 estrellas y media sobre 5 y más de tres mil comentarios de los lectores en la web de Apple. Un libro dirigido no solo a fans del videojuego sino, y fundamentalmente, a amantes de la epic fantasy. Novela que entra en la categoría de «universo expandido»: el lector puede disfrutar de esta historia sin haber jugado al juego, ya que profundiza en el fantástico mundo de Infinity Blade, un mundo de intriga y misterio donde la magia y la tecnología son indistinguibles, e incluso la vida y la muerte no son lo que parecen. Brandon Sanderson nació en 1975 en Lincoln, Nebraska. Vive en Utah con su esposa e hijos y enseña escritura creativa en la Universidad Brigham Young. Su primera novela publicada, Elantris (2005), fue recibida por el público y la crítica como una interesantísima renovación del género de fantasía.Adiestrado desde su nacimiento en esgrima y combate, un joven caballero llamado Siris ha luchado ferozmente para poder enfrentarse al tiránico Rey Dios en un combate cara a cara. Esta es la misión que ha heredado de toda su estirpe y que se remonta a incontables generaciones, en un continuo esfuerzo por liberar a su pueblo de la esclavitud. Pero cuando finalmente parece lograr su cometido, Siris se verá de pronto arrojado a un mundo mucho más peligroso, lleno de guerreros, ladrones, antiguos conflictos, peleas y alianzas cambiantes, entre mortales, inmortales y aspirantes a reyes. Sus ansias de libertad le llevarán a un viaje épico en busca de un ser -el único ser en el mundo- que podrá desentrañar los verdaderos secretos de Infinity Blade, la Espada Infinita.

Brandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. His ambitious, multi-volume epics and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. In LEGION, a distinctly contemporary novella filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson reveals a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent. Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion', is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialised skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his 'aspects' are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society. The action ranges from the familiar environs of America to the ancient, divided city of Jerusalem. Along the way, Sanderson touches on a formidable assortment of complex questions: the nature of time, the mysteries of the human mind, the potential uses of technology, and the volatile connection between politics and faith. Resonant, intelligent, and thoroughly absorbing, LEGION is a provocative entertainment from a writer of great originality and seemingly limitless gifts

El camino de los reyes es el primer volumen de «El Archivo de las Tormentas», el resultado de más de una década de construcción y escritura de universos, convertido en una obra maestra de la fantas