High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Stormlight Archive is an ongoing epic fantasy series by Brandon Sanderson. The world of The Stormlight Archive is one constantly assaulted by hurricanes.Flora and fauna have evolved to cope with this condition. It is planned to be a ten book, multi-novel series. The first book in the series, The Way of Kings, was released on August 31, 2010 by Tor Books. The second book was planned to be released approximately two years after the release of the first book due to writing the final book of The Wheel of Time series. However, posts made by Brandon Sanderson to Twitter and Facebook upon the completion of writing the first draft of A Memory of Light reveal that book will be released January 8, 2013, so the next book in The Stormlight Archive will be pushed back to a late 2013 release.