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Torrannor posted:The Stormlight Archive covers are quite well done imho. I also have a soft spot for the Warbreaker cover, to be honest. The Stormlight covers are by Michael Whelan who's pretty much the biggest name in Fantasy/scifi cover art.
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Looks like a Dresden Files cover.
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Jaxyon posted:The Stormlight covers are by Michael Whelan who's pretty much the biggest name in Fantasy/scifi cover art. The Way of Kings cover is the best I think. Super weird and evocative. Is it supposed to represent a specific scene or event in the book?
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May 31, 2022 20:15
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drat that marasi cover is way better
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Paddyo posted:The Way of Kings cover is the best I think. Super weird and evocative. Is it supposed to represent a specific scene or event in the book? Hmm, seems like I'm mistaken. I'll need to do more research. Torrannor fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 31, 2022 |
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There's totally a scene where Kaladin, or maybe one of the Kholins? kinda salutes / shares a moment with a Parshendi across a chasm in the book. The art just doesn't use the correct cloak color
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Sanderson made a post on reddit about the cover design:Brando Sando posted:The problem is not that the covers are bland. The problem is that book series take a long time to write.
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Torrannor posted:The Stormlight Archive covers are quite well done imho. That's because Michael Whelan is one of the best cover artists in the world. He's do SO MANY amazing covers.
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This got me trying to figure out the official story of the cover art, and I just found the Hungarian artwork and it owns so hard:
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May 31, 2022 20:36
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that does a good job communicating to readers that these people live in Crab Hell
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Didn’t know the Stormlight Archive was Brandon’s take on Vana'diel
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Sab669 posted:This got me trying to figure out the official story of the cover art, and I just found the Hungarian artwork and it owns so hard: This is so much better then the other version it's stupid.
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The Way of Kings artwork is by far the best of all of his books IMO. Fantasy covers being "fantasy character dramatically looks at the camera" is so played out and corny, WoR and OB covers were quite weak because of this. WoK artwork is just a beautiful tapestry of an alien world and a high storm and an unidentifiable person facing away. It's composed way more naturally and will be much more timeless. Mistborn Era 1 covers are pretty neat, they're at least more original and don't fall into cliches as hard. Mistorn Era 2 covers are just.... The worst, it's embarrassing. They look like YA mystery from the bargain bin at a bookstore, I don't know why they've stuck with this trend. Is it seriously because it gets more sales?  I mean look at how sick this is 
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The Wax/Wayne covers look like if the characters on the front of romance novels put on their clothes and were trying to stay away from each other.
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I should really buy a print of that cover
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I have been re-reading the Saga of Pliocene Exile, the series came out in the early 80's, but the style of the covers look absolutely ancient. I'm amazed that art styles can have changed so much in so little time.
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Sab669 posted:Or so you don't have to click Twitter: .... who made this
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Meanwhile, I'm the audiobook listener that doesn't care what the book covers look like. I also think the Warbreaker cover is lame.
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Oasx posted:I have been re-reading the Saga of Pliocene Exile, the series came out in the early 80's, but the style of the covers look absolutely ancient. I'm amazed that art styles can have changed so much in so little time. There are different versions of the covers even in the states, my Nonborn King has Aiken Drum on a flying horse (I forget the name), but there’s a much more dated cover with him standing looking smug. I don’t know the deal with cover art except the authors have zero control over them. Charles Stross has a post about it here with regard to one of the most notoriously bad covers I’ve ever seen: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-6-why-did-you-pick-such-a.html
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Velius posted:There are different versions of the covers even in the states, my Nonborn King has Aiken Drum on a flying horse (I forget the name), but there’s a much more dated cover with him standing looking smug. I don’t know the deal with cover art except the authors have zero control over them. Charles Stross has a post about it here with regard to one of the most notoriously bad covers I’ve ever seen: It's stuff like this that just looks so odd in my opinion.   Not to derail the thread, but i'm really surprised that Saga of Pliocene Exile hasn't been picked up for a movie or tv treatment
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Oasx posted:It's stuff like this that just looks so odd in my opinion. God drat those are terrible. The 80s paperbacks I got were all Whelan covers. I mean just look at this cover for The Nonborn King 
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I thought the other half of that series - the Galactic Milieu series, set in the future half of the time loop - was the best when I was growing up. Alas, it was basically Catholic apologia when I picked it back up as an adult, although it has some neat ideas. It did continue the tradition of atrocious cover art, though.
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It's been a while since I read the Galactic Milieu series, I mostly remember it to be rather slow, but that may just be because of the first book.
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Having read mistborn and stormlight archives (and re listening to stormlight on graphicaudio which was bas rear end as poo poo) one thing really stood out to me. Is it me or does Sanderson really like to write about mental illness? In stormlight at least 6 major characters have diagnosable mental illnesses.
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Mikojan posted:Is it me or does Sanderson really like to write about mental illness? In stormlight at least 6 major characters have diagnosable mental illnesses. This is explicitly discussed in the text of the series. If you don’t remember that conversation, just wait. Or read this spoiler: Radiant spren appear to be drawn to “broken” individuals, drawing parallels to the kintsugi technique of Japanese pottery. There are lots of well-adjusted individuals on Roshar, we just don’t interact with them much because almost all our viewpoint characters are Knights Radiant, and therefore not neurotypical.
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Grundulum posted:This is explicitly discussed in the text of the series. If you don’t remember that conversation, just wait. Or read this spoiler: Radiant spren appear to be drawn to “broken” individuals, drawing parallels to the kintsugi technique of Japanese pottery. There are lots of well-adjusted individuals on Roshar, we just don’t interact with them much because almost all our viewpoint characters are Knights Radiant, and therefore not neurotypical. To extend the above: Broken people have a broken "spirit web" that makes it easier for spren to attach, and for other magical systems to interact with them. Well-adjusted people can form bonds but it's more difficult because they're basically already complete. A notable case possibly being Adolin, who might end up using his spirit web to bond and heal Maya In summary it's a conscious decision on Sanderson's part
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bada bing bada boom the characters are more interesting and from my reading, it's less than the spirit web is broken and more that a cognitive or physical aspect of the person has deviated from the spiritweb template, leaving cracks that the spren can help fill it seems like a narrative trick to turn each person's journey into power into a journey of a person and a little magical being learning how to become their best together Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Jun 23, 2022 |
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Huh, I never got that from the books, must have glossed over it. I figured Sanderson must have had some sort of run in with illness either himself or by proxy and felt inspired to write about it in detail.
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Sanderson's mental/emotional state is, if anything, abnormally stable. Doesn't go as high or low as typical, in some interview he mentions it and says basically 'Wedding day, happiest day of my life. For most people that would be a 10 out of 10, but I just only ever can go up to 8'.
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I hadn't connected the dots to the spren with that, but makes perfect sense to me now. The spoilers stuff gets called out pretty specifically in secret history.
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Tunicate posted:Sanderson's mental/emotional state is, if anything, abnormally stable. Doesn't go as high or low as typical, in some interview he mentions it and says basically 'Wedding day, happiest day of my life. For most people that would be a 10 out of 10, but I just only ever can go up to 8'. he has also directly said that his spouse has clinical depression, which is part of why people dealing with it is like a central theme in these books eke out fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Jun 24, 2022 |
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He has said that the hardest things to write about were depression and being a battle field medic because both required him to do a significant amount of research on each before he felt right writing about them Edit: I was slightly wrong. The question was what character required the most research https://wob.coppermind.net/events/39/#e455 Synesthesian Fetish fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jun 24, 2022 |
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Stormlight 5 delayed to 2024
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Barreft posted:Stormlight 5 delayed to 2024 Is there a source for this or just a hunch based on his Weekly Updates always being about the Secret Projects? I don't see anything on the various Sanderson subreddits, his website, or YouTube. edit; Just notcied your Padan Fain avatar and it makes me want to re-watch WoT 
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Sab669 posted:Is there a source for this or just a hunch based on his Weekly Updates always being about the Secret Projects? I don't see anything on the various Sanderson subreddits, his website, or YouTube. https://youtu.be/Y-j4oVSiVmk
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 The man himself posted:This is the year Hollywood came calling I mean I guess of all the reasons to have it delayed, that would be my preferred one. But still a little bit of a bummer.
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interesting that he says the main reason for the delay is because Hollywood has been way more interested recently, not because it's writing delays also tbh it's hard to be too disappointed when we're getting a new cosmere book every three months during that period eke out fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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"Only" 3 of the 4 secret novels are Cosmere. But yea that's a good point, between Wax & Wayne and all of those secret projects coming out I guess there won't be any shortage of things to read in the meantime.
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Skyward 4 next year too. I'd laugh if Hollywood goes for reckoners or skyward as a movie series before mistborn.
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