The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time Series #12)

by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

Overview

The Wheel of Time ® is a PBS Great American Read Selection! Now in development for TV!

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.

The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, and now Stormlight Archive, among others, was chosen by Jordan's editor--his wife, Harriet McDougal--to complete the final volume, later expanded to three books.

In this epic novel, Robert Jordan's international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward--wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders--his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.

Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower--and possibly the world itself.

TV series update: "Sony will produce along with Red Eagle Entertainment and Radar Pictures. Rafe Judkins is attached to write and executive produce. Judkins previously worked on shows such as ABC’s “Agents of SHIELD,” the Netflix series “Hemlock Grove,” and the NBC series “Chuck.” Red Eagle partners Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will executive produce along with Radar’s Ted Field and Mike Weber. Darren Lemke will also executive produce, with Jordan’s widow Harriet McDougal serving as consulting producer." —Variety

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765302304
Publisher:	Tom Doherty Associates
Publication date:	10/27/2009
Series:	Wheel of Time Series
Pages:	783
Sales rank:	62,350
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.40(d)

About the Author

ROBERT JORDAN (1948-2007) is best known for his internationally bestselling epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time®, which has sold over 40 million copies in North America and is currently being adapted for the screen. A native of Charleston, Jordan graduated from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and received multiple decorations for his service.

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 the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn® trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning; the Stormlight Archive novels The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, and Oathbringer; and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart. In 2013, he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time® sequence.

Date of Birth:

October 17, 1948

Date of Death:

September 16, 2007

Place of Birth:

Charleston, South Carolina

Place of Death:

Charleston, South Carolina

Education:

B.S. in physics, The Citadel, 1974

Website:

http://www.tor.com/Jordan/

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Table of Contents

MAPS,
PROLOGUE: What the Storm Means,
1 Tears from Steel,
2 The Nature of Pain,
3 The Ways of Honor,
4 Nightfall,
5 A Tale of Blood,
6 When Iron Melts,
7 The Plan for Arad Doman,
8 Clean Shirts,
9 Leaving Malden,
10 The Last of the Tabac,
11 The Death of Adrin,
12 Unexpected Encounters,
13 An Offer and a Departure,
14 A Box Opens,
15 A Place to Begin,
16 In the White Tower,
17 Questions of Control,
18 A Message in Haste,
19 Gambits,
20 On a Broken Road,
21 Embers and Ash,
22 The Last That Could Be Done,
23 A Warp in the Air,
24 A New Commitment,
25 In Darkness,
26 A Crack in the Stone,
27 The Tipsy Gelding,
28 Night in Hinderstap,
29 Into Bandar Eban,
30 Old Advice,
31 A Promise to Lews Therin,
32 Rivers of Shadow,
33 A Conversation with the Dragon,
34 Legends,
35 A Halo of Blackness,
36 The Death of Tuon,
37 A Force of Light,
38 News in Tel'aran'rhiod,
39 A Visit from Verin Sedai,
40 The Tower Shakes,
41 A Fount of Power,
42 Before the Stone of Tear,
43 Sealed to the Flame,
44 Scents Unknown,
45 The Tower Stands,
46 To Be Forged Again,
47 The One He Lost,
48 Reading the Commentary,
49 Just Another Man,
50 Veins of Gold,
EPILOGUE: Bathed in Light,
GLOSSARY,

Editorial Reviews

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 evil—but what strikes me as most pleasurable . . . is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world.” —Orson Scott Card on The Wheel of Time

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