{"id":3878,"date":"2010-06-10T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2010-06-10T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T16:48:34","slug":"free-readin-50-pages-of-the-way-of-kings-by-brandon-sanderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/news\/free-readin-50-pages-of-the-way-of-kings-by-brandon-sanderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Readin’ | 50 Pages of ‘The Way of Kings’ by Brandon Sanderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\"The<\/a>\n
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Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan\u2019s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar\u2019s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Way of Kings<\/strong> needs no introduction. It’s August, 2010 release promises to be one of the biggest of the year, and Sanderson looks poised to pick up the torch left by Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, names synonymous with ludicrously long Epic Fantasies.<\/p>\n

Courtesy Tor.com<\/a>, I’ve got the Prelude and Prologue of The Way of Kings<\/strong>, ready to be downloaded and consumed in a few different formats, from Tor:<\/p>\n