Torrannor posted:

This makes me worried a bit, although admittedly it's a pretty small worry compared to the big thing going on right now. How could his career go differently? There were a lot of collaborations in his non-Cosmere works, will he concentrate on Stormlight and be the big outline guy while others write Mistborn/Warbreaker 2/etc.?

NikkolasKing posted:

I don't think I've ever heard the name Joe Abercrombie, although I vaguely think I've heard of "The First Law" before...

Would you recommend it? Wiki makes it sound kinda interesting.

Skuzal posted:

My understanding is that the editing on Wax and Wayne 4 took a bit longer due to him writing a bunch more on it, but he still thinks he can hit his original timeline especially due to not having any conventions to go to. My guess is that Secret Book 4 would come out a month or two before Stormlight 5.

Democratic Pirate posted:

Wait do I need to back the kickstarter to get the books or are they available later

Tunicate posted:

IIRC the only one that's permanently out of print is the Infinity Blade novelization hardcovers

if you have one of those there are sanderson collectors who will pay top dollar for them

Cicero posted:

Some of Brando Sando's traits are exaggerated because he's popular imo. Like he's known for "optimistic" fantasy, but the first several hundred pages of The Way of Kings is still the protagonist getting repeatedly shat on, and he has other works that are certainly grimmer than that one.

Theli posted:

What's the consensus on the Skyward series? Haven't really followed Sanderson's side projects in a while but catching a flight tomorrow and need something to read.

I love Mistborn and Stormlight, but wasn't a huge fan of the Reckoners, read too much like YA fiction.

Sab669 posted:

It doesn't have an official release date, but his current target is Q4 2023 - Q1 2024, and if you're not familiar with Brandon's productivity habits, well, I think it's really safe to assume he's going to hit his target. So if you read all 4, you won't be waiting ~that long~ for #5

Louisgod posted:

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

It's Very Good

NikkolasKing posted:

And can I jusr say, on the topic of Wit, I'd like to pick some peoples' brains on this. Stormlight spoilers.

Do you think Wit is a good person? Do you think there's any currency to the idea he'll be a villain or even THE villain like some people predict?

I don't pretend to be some great analyst or predicter but nothing I picked up on in my two runs through TSA made me think of Hoid as anything but an eccentric, somewhat detached. but ultimately benevolent figure. He's not as emphatic as Kaladin or as straight-laced as Dalinar but this can be chalked up to the eternities he's lived. All that being said, he never once came off as cruel or ruthless to my mind and while I am ambivalent about Shellan, her interactions with him are the most telling when it comes to his fundamental "humanity." He's supremely awkward when she rushes to hug him but he doesn't turn her away. He goes to her when every good deed she attempts blows up in her face in Oathbringer. I find these moments very sweet and indicative of his essentially good nature.

Granted, I think I saw these predictions of him being evil before RoW so maybe that's all gone out the window now. A lot went out the window with that book's ending.

KKKLIP ART posted:

Is there a place to get a good Wax and Wayne summary for everything up to the latest book? Spoiler’s obviously fine, I just don’t have time to reread them.

Torrannor posted:

APRIL?

WTF???

I figured something like February, but April? Lol, I'm not waiting that long.

CK07 posted:

Okay yeah I'm glad I didn't spring for that, thanks for sharing pics. I'm not suggesting that nobody would or should like what's in the box, but it's definitely not for me.

Megazver posted:

NikkolasKing posted:

I do think it's a good question about why Sanderson isn't more talked about. Then again, maybe not. Maybe Rowling and HP are a unique phenomenon. Did A Song of Ice and Fire do better than Stormlight Archive? Obviously with GoT it was catapulted into the stratosphere but was Martin similarly confined to Fantasy nerd circles before that? Maybe there's nothing unusual here, Rowling is the unusual one. Even Stephen King I imagine benefited a lot from his books being made into films, same as Martin with GoT. That is what made him mainstream popular. I think. I dunno.

Louisgod posted:

It took me about 400 pages into book 1 to get into it but you can’t go wrong with The First Law trilogy.

Grundulum posted:

As for the writing, there were a few things that took me out of the book. The narrator makes several references to technology that are, to my knowledge, the first times we’ve ever seen those things mentioned in the Cosmere: the laptop line, in particular, caught me off guard. I’m not sure if that was lack of attention to points of view and limited knowledge, if the narrator does in fact know what those items are, or if I’ve missed similar references to such things in previous books.

RDM posted:

There's enough existing text to fine-tune SandersonGPT

VanillaGorilla posted:

It feels like a vision of how bad RJ would have been if he didn’t have an aggressive editor (Harriet) reining him in.