All things Brandon Sanderson

Sanderson should be declared a world heritage site and national monument, and forced to be cloned forever to keep writing.

sanderson da god. he tweeted this earlier this morning:

"That's a wrap! Dalinar flashbacks are done. 55,000 words/15 chapters. I'm very excited about them. Still a lot to do on the book, though."

15 chapters of only Dalinar flashbacks? Not sure if that is a good thing or not, if there are a lot of "flashbacks" where he is in another persons body from the distant past to reveal some history about Odium / old gods...that would be cool.

Stormlight archives gives me such a chubby.

Zindan_sl said:

15 chapters of only Dalinar flashbacks? Not sure if that is a good thing or not, if there are a lot of "flashbacks" where he is in another persons body from the distant past to reveal some history about Odium / old gods...that would be cool.

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Eh, seems similar to what he has done so far. One character gets the flashbacks to fill out their backstory in each book. First was kaladin, second was shallan, looks like this one will be dalinar.

I'm pretty fucking curious what boon he got that caused him to completely forget his wife for one, which will be explained in that book.

Dalinar's pov was supposed to be book 4 i think too? I was really looking forward to the original idea of Szeth being book 3. Szeth is such a badass!

Didn't Sanderson say something a few years back that freaked people out, about us maybe getting flashbacks from dead characters or the like? Would guess he decided he'd rather give us Dalinar in book 3 before he kills him and save Szeth for book 4.

Sorry if it's been posted before but what's the suggested order for reading through Sanderson's cosmere stuff?

The Mistborn trilogy, Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, then The Stormlight Archives. After that, he has quite a few smaller books set in the the same universe as well as a super hero trilogy. That's my suggestion.

Just read publication order. It really doesn't matter, all the series are independent of each other so just read through them. You may pick up on the links through all the different stories, but you might not. Once you're done just read a wiki or a fansite and they'll dot all the lines for you and you can go "oh yeah..." then you know what to look out for when the new books come out.

I'd recommend publication order as well. The quality of writing improves noticeably, and it's always better to get better works as you progress than to go downhill. I even enjoyed the Mistborn stuff on re-reads, which is uncommon for me.

Just read my first Sanderson by accident. Gf got it at airport and hatred it. The rirhmatist? Kinda high school reading level but was still enjoyable. Definitely see the Mormon angle. While I didn't mind no cursing innocence, it still has gore. But was getting impatient fit the main character and the girl to get it on already. Don't even make out jeesus.

Aside from the fantasy books are there worthwhile sci Fi? I loved the rithmatists followable chalk system that made sense. Id love to see a sci Fi equivalent quality. But I'm Leary of another poster taking about protagonists going ask dbz/too powerful.

Supposedly eventually mist born is going space opera.. when he gets to hoid It sounds like there will be some space sci-fi as well

Sanderson has a new novella out. It was part of a collection previously. It's called Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell for .99 at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U9T2QVI?tag=brandsande-20