Brandon Sanderson's new novel available for free or on paper

Author Brandon Sanderson has been releasing the successive drafts of his new novel, Warbreaker, as free downloads under a Creative Commons license. There are four different versions available from this page (and archivists thought computers would kill the possibility of looking at the evolution of books).

For those who still prefer the physical book, after it's gone through all the rounds of editing, Tor will be publishing it as a hardcover on 9 June.

Warbreaker is "the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.

"Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

"By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker."