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Shadows of Self: A Mistborn Novel

by Brandon Sanderson

A changing city, familiar powers, new threats

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    By a #1 New York Times bestselling author

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A changing city, familiar powers, new threats

Set three centuries after the original Mistborn trilogy, this installment places Scadrial in a period of technological change: railways, electric lighting and early skyscrapers are reshaping its cities. Waxillium Ladrian has left the frontier to lead his noble House, only to find that his law-enforcement skills are needed in urban life as well. The story brings Allomancy and Feruchemy into a society unsettled by attacks meant to inflame labor and religious tensions. Wax, Wayne and constabulary officer Marasi investigate the conspiracy, linking the series’ magical action with questions of social change and political stability.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following the Mistborn series, especially its Wax and Wayne stories.
  • Fans of epic fantasy that combines magic, investigation and political intrigue.
  • Readers interested in fantasy settings shaped by technological and social change.

Themes

Technological change and modernityLabor and religious conflictPolitical intrigue and public orderMagic and investigation

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Book overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

When family obligations forced Waxillium Ladrian to forsake the frontier lands and return to the metropolis of his birth to take his place as head of a noble House, he little imagined that the crime-fighting skills acquired during twenty years in the dusty plains would be just as applicable in the big city. He soon learned that there too, just being a talented Twinborn -- one who can use both Allomancy and Feruchemy, the dominant magical modes on Scadrial -- would not suffice.

This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society will now face its first test by terrorism and assassination, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax, his eccentric sidekick Wayne, and brilliant, beautiful young Marasi, now officially part of the constabulary, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife can stop Scadrial's progress in its tracks.

Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere

The Stormlight Archive

The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer

The Mistborn trilogy

Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages

Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning


Collection
Arcanum Unbounded

Other Cosmere novels
Elantris
Warbreaker

The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
The Scrivener's Bones
The Knights of Crystallia
The Shattered Lens
The Dark Talent

The Rithmatist series
The Rithmatist

Other books by Brandon Sanderson

The Reckoners

Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity

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