What did you do during “Lockdown 2020?” Brandon Sanderson wrote 4 secret books!
Just over one year ago, Brandon Sanderson, the popular science fiction and fantasy author, started a crowdfunded project on the Kickstarter platform called “Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson.” With only vague, yet tantalizing hints, Sanderson’s fans did not disappoint. Nearly 186,000 people pledged over $41 million to see these books come to fruition. Sanderson now holds the bragging rights for the highest funded project on kickstarter.com!
If you missed out on participating, don’t worry. The books are also coming to Fondulac District Library. The first book is already on our shelves, with the second set to arrive over the summer. Find out more below.
Secret Project #1: Tress of the Emerald Sea
Publication Date: April 4, 2023
Author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?
Secret Project #2: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Expected Publication Date: June 27, 2023
Brandon Sanderson meshes Jason Bourne and epic fantasy in this captivating adventure that throws an amnesiac wizard into time travel shenanigans—where his only hope of survival lies in recovering his missing memories.
A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the “real world” should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, except his copy exploded during transit. The few fragments he managed to save provide clues to his situation, but can he figure them out in time to survive?
Secret Project #3: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Expected Publication Date: October 3, 2023
A gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different worlds must compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other’s communities from certain disaster?
Secret Project #4: The Sunlit Man
Expected Publication Date: January 2, 2024
Brandon Sanderson shows us a future in the Cosmere universe where a perpetual planetary wanderer must decide whether to keep running or stay and make a difference on a struggling planet.
Years ago, he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now the man who calls himself Nomad knows only a life on the run. Forced to hop from world to world in the Cosmere whenever the relentless Night Brigade gets too close, Nomad lands on a new planet and is instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels who want only to escape being turned into mindless slaves—all under the constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones. Unable to understand the language, can he navigate the conflict and gain enough power to leap off-world before his mind or body pay the ultimate price?
-Annotations from the publishers
–Post by Melissa Friedlund, Reference Specialist