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Finished "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" and "Sixth of the Dusk" Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell: An okay book. Some incredible plot conveniences though in happening to have the final encounter with the withered hunter be right next to the silver bolt that had been launched earlier. Plus, the tax collector is kind of a dumbass in thinking that Silence wouldn't get revenge on him after he nearly killed her daughter. I didn't see any connections at all to the rest of the Cosmere. If I was supposed to here. Sixth of the Dusk: I enjoyed this one more to be honest. As far as I can tell no magic in this one, but maybe some connection to Hoid/Wit's people (?) in the Ones Above in that story. Their non-interference rule against the "less developed" people certainly sounds similar to what the (presumed) companion of Wit mentioned in the chapter openers. They were also mentioned as trading "spheres" which could have been the glass gemstones infused with stormlight from the Stormlight Archive. A tight plot and character arcs that leave people changed and a looming threat that could still leave Sanderson something to come back to. Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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Dec 19, 2023 19:22
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Brandon released a secret 5th book today. Ebook download is free. It looks pretty short and it's non-Cosmere. I'm only on the Forward right now. https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/products/long-chills-and-case-dough-hardcover-book
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:Brandon released a secret 5th book today. Ebook download is free. It looks pretty short and it's non-Cosmere. I'm only on the Forward right now. Yeah, it only took me about 30 minutes to read.
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State of the Sanderson is out: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2023/ Lawnie posted:It’s easy to hate on Lirin, Kal’s dad because he lives in a violent world but he’s a strict and consistent pacifist, which the world needs more of. No he's just a coward (and even that's being generous). Refusing to act because hundreds might die if you do, while ignoring that thousands or millions could die through your inaction doesn't make you noble. It makes you self-righteous trash.
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Dec 19, 2023 21:08
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Evil Fluffy posted:No he's just a coward (and even that's being generous). Refusing to act because hundreds might die if you do, while ignoring that thousands or millions could die through your inaction doesn't make you noble. It makes you self-righteous trash. Some wise old guy once said: "To ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom - it is indolence."
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Dec 19, 2023 21:13
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Evil Fluffy posted:State of the Sanderson is out: Two things that stood out to me about this: - Horneater Novella is not next year. - Mistborn Era three is called (Era 2 spoilers) GHOSTBLOODS and he won't start writing until Jan 2025.
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Dec 19, 2023 21:23
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Mordiceius posted:Two things that stood out to me about this: Yeah I saw that too earlier and sorta wish I hadn't!! Brandon doesn't respect the sanctity of the first time reader experience 
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Dec 19, 2023 21:56
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" and "Sixth of the Dusk" Sixth of the Dusk: Surely the Aviar's count as magic? Right? Dusk himself isn't doing magic sure, Sak and Kokerlii are doing something! Their powers even seemed vaguely reminiscent of certain Allomantic abilities to me.
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pik_d posted:Yeah I saw that too earlier and sorta wish I hadn't!! Brandon doesn't respect the sanctity of the first time reader experience Reading The Lost Metal before The Stormlight Archive makes certain plot elements... very interesting. Hence why I had multiple points in my Way of Kings posts that were "PIK_D DO NOT READ" lol
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pik_d posted:gently caress Moash These words are accepted.
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pik_d posted:Sixth of the Dusk: I guess? They said it was just a parasite that the birds got from living on the island that allowed the ability.
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Mordiceius posted:Some wise old guy once said: "To ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom - it is indolence." Ah yeah guess it doesn’t matter if you harm some people in the process of saving others, thanks, trolley problem’s been solved then.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I guess? They said it was just a parasite that the birds got from living on the island that allowed the ability. That pool where the birds go to get their powers, it's very similar to the one in Elantris, Rock mentions one in the Horneater lands, you've even seen a smaller more condensed one in the form of a well somewhere.
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The plan to write all the Mistborn 3 stuff before anything is released, meaning that there's one book at the end of this year, a White Sands rewrite in 2026, and then nothing until 2028 is a bit yikes.Nitrousoxide posted:I guess? They said it was just a parasite that the birds got from living on the island that allowed the ability.
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Oh, Chris Davenport is playing the bard in the bar in White Sand. I wonder who that might be hmmmmmmmm. Edit: Finished White Sand Vol 1, now some early White Sand Vol 2: Wow Khrissalla is astoundingly unlikable. Charges in to his order and loudly calls him a liar and his sand mastery the work of a charlatan. Says that as an "uncivilized people" he has a life debt to her for saving him. Which, I mean, even aside from how dismissive that is to half of the planet, all her party did was give him a couple of sips of water, water which he could have easily gotten from the vines anyway. Then she demands that he drop everything to help her go overthrow her leaders on the other side of the planet. And then her party claims that she is some political genius who should be the one handling the politics needed to save Kenton's order???? This incredibly abrasive and self-important girl? I dunno about this series. I'm gonna give Sanderson the benefit of the doubt. But this 2 week deadline seems narratively impossible to (plausibly) pull off and Khris is just so goddamn unlikable as a lead character it's dragging it down. Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Dec 20, 2023 |
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CapnAndy posted:The plan to write all the Mistborn 3 stuff before anything is released, meaning that there's one book at the end of this year, a White Sands rewrite in 2026, and then nothing until 2028 is a bit yikes. Practically it seems like he usually just writes a novella or three to fill in the big gaps.
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CapnAndy posted:The plan to write all the Mistborn 3 stuff before anything is released, meaning that there's one book at the end of this year, a White Sands rewrite in 2026, and then nothing until 2028 is a bit yikes. There is no way Brandon Sanderson only writes 2 books in 4 years, he's about as capable of that as GRRM is capable of writing 2 books in 4 years
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Lotsa spoilers in this live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JzPGumm8oE
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Nitrousoxide posted:Oh, Chris Davenport is playing the bard in the bar in White Sand. I wonder who that might be hmmmmmmmm. Never liked White Sand, only Cosmere thing I never finished, something about all of it just feels off.
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Mordiceius posted:Two things that stood out to me about this: Those two definitely stand out, but the other thing I noticed is that there are no Stormlight books on his tentative release schedule apart from SA5. The schedule goes until 2030! So no new SA books until 2031 at the earliest!
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Dec 20, 2023 05:44
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Sanderson has always said there would be a 5+ year gap between SA1-5 and 6-10.
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As far as I remember Sanderson didn't write White Sand beyond the outline for the plot and magic system. He instead wrote an unpublished semi-related book of the same name many many years ago.
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Looking forward to buying Stormlight 10 with my social security check.
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From the State of Sandersonquote:This one is going to be a little hard to gauge this year, as while a few things are set, a lot of others are in flux. For example, I’ll be writing Ghostbloods straight through, maybe with Elantris sequels in between, and don’t want to release any of them until they are all done.
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Dec 20, 2023 17:13
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Stop loving writing skyward Brando. Let another author pick it up bro
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RC Cola posted:Stop loving writing skyward Brando. Let another author pick it up bro He's not. Janci is writing those.
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Oh ok good I take it back. Brando keep doing your thing
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So the only thing he has planned for 2024 is SA5? I'm not complaining since I have 5 billion other books ready to read but I guess I just want everything nowwwwwww
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Subvisual Haze posted:From the State of Sanderson I didn't really pick up on this - stormlight archive is going on hiatus til 2030+?
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mewse posted:I didn't really pick up on this - stormlight archive is going on hiatus til 2030+?
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Subvisual Haze posted:Sounds like he wants to finish up the whole next Mistborn series before even starting on the next SA book. I wonder if he's feeling a little burned out with the setting. Somebody upthread mentioned he had always planned to take a large break between books 5 and 6 but I imagine writing a 400k word behemoth does probably make you want to work on something else for a while. Just hope SA5 ties off some big things so we don't have to wait that long for resolution.
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Subvisual Haze posted:Sounds like he wants to finish up the whole next Mistborn series before even starting on the next SA book. I wonder if he's feeling a little burned out with the setting. He's always planned a big gap between the two arcs, with the idea being to use that time to work on other stuff that is being neglected for the SL 1-5 focus IIRC. Considering his idea of a break from writing was to write 4 more books, being burned out on Stormlight would probably result in him annoucing a new prequel trilogy or something.
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His writing the 4 short stories also coincided with pushing back SA5's release date a year. I'm not judging the guy, maybe real family life is demanding more of his time, maybe the muse is getting quiet, but his output has slowed a fair bit from his prime and that forward schedule is basically admitting the same.
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i bet the ghostbloods stuff gets pushed forward some, it's hard to imagine him actually taking three full years to write it all without releasing any
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Subvisual Haze posted:His writing the 4 short stories also coincided with pushing back SA5's release date a year. I'm not judging the guy, maybe real family life is demanding more of his time, maybe the muse is getting quiet, but his output has slowed a fair bit from his prime and that forward schedule is basically admitting the same. He's also been very upfront with noting he's put lots of time into side projects like the Kickstarter and leatherback stuff, and working on scripts for his books. Feels like his output is about the same, he's just stretched thin across other things.
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It seems more that RoW came out almost a year before you'd expect based on books 2 and 3 (and honestly I think taking that extra time would have been worthwhile). Way of Kings: (August 31, 2010) >1281 days Words of Radiance: (March 4, 2014 ) >1351 days Oathbringer (November 14, 2017) >1099 days Rhythm of war (November 17, 2020) >1480 days Wind And Truth ( December 6, 2024)
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The secret projects were a result of covid lockdowns and sadly I don't think they'll be repeated. I just feel a bit of whiplash going from getting a new ebook every 3 months to seeing a planned 4 year break between stormlight 5 and his next released book.
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I've avoided this thread since the Secret Novels were first coming out as I was afraid of spoilers, but then I found not a one intrigued me except for Frugal Wizard. I've been having a hard time getting interested in reading in general though lately. So I would kinda prefer he just sticks to writing... everything he already knows he wants to write for the Cosmere. Supremely excited to see the book title / release date announcement of Stormlight 5 though  And I am excited to see how Songs of the Dead is.
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DarkHorse posted:I know Brandon wanted the first letters of the book titles to form a ketek but "The Knights of Wind and Truth" felt clunky besides the obvious problems of the sounds not working right either, it seems like he decided to simplify it and give up on that. There's also no reason the in-universe book couldn't be The Knights of Wind and Truth
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