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Oh, and he isn't holding the Poking around a bit, the Brazilian Mistborn Cover looks pretty kickass as well. I hope they have Marc Simonetti do the Brazilian covers for every one of Sanderson's brazillion books. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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Jan 26, 2014 08:27
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Hopeford posted:That cover is magical. It's one of those things that make me want to keep my desktop organized if only so I can stare at it I've had that inner cover chart of the Orders as my desktop for like two years now. It's beautiful 
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Jan 26, 2014 08:30
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Is the UK cover available yet? I really like the aesthetic of Sanderson's UK editions, and I wanna see the next one!
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Jan 26, 2014 10:43
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thespaceinvader posted:Is the UK cover available yet? I really like the aesthetic of Sanderson's UK editions, and I wanna see the next one! You mean the white ones? All my Sandersons are like that. I love how they fit together on the shelf.
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Jan 26, 2014 12:10
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thespaceinvader posted:Is the UK cover available yet? I really like the aesthetic of Sanderson's UK editions, and I wanna see the next one! Here you go 
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Jan 26, 2014 13:03
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I'm so ready for WoR because there's a >90% chance the Szeth - Kaladin showdown is going to happen, be awesome, and I can't decide if Dalinar will make it through or not.
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Jan 26, 2014 18:48
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Democratic Pirate posted:I'm so ready for WoR because there's a >90% chance the Szeth - Kaladin showdown is going to happen, be awesome, and I can't decide if Dalinar will make it through or not. I'm betting Dalinar makes it through because Sanderson has been trying to write the guy since he was sixteen years old, and two novels just isn't enough
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Jan 26, 2014 18:51
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As nice as it is to get access to these early chapters I've never really paced myself with Sanderson books so the wait is getting to be a little maddening. The man is an expert at plotting and drawing the readers attention. Admittedly this is a very effective sales tactic.
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Jan 26, 2014 21:54
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The new cover is way better. The old version of Kaladin looked like a gay American Indian in a civil war reenactor's union dresscoat.
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Jan 26, 2014 23:20
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I'm going to echo that the UK covers are still the best. I got a box set of the Mistborn shipped over and they are my favorites by far.
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Jan 26, 2014 23:32
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The UK cover looks like David Lynch's Dune mixed with medieval armor but still somehow bad.
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Jan 27, 2014 00:47
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Tunicate posted:I'm betting Dalinar makes it through because Sanderson has been trying to write the guy since he was sixteen years old, and two novels just isn't enough Ah, I didn't know that. Well then I guess some of the current Bridge crew members are about to get cut down since there's no way that fight ends without some important casualties.
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Jan 27, 2014 01:33
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Democratic Pirate posted:I'm so ready for WoR because there's a >90% chance the Szeth - Kaladin showdown is going to happen, be awesome, and I can't decide if Dalinar will make it through or not. I think Dalinar will make it, but I wouldn't sell Adolin any life insurance if I were you. Although that may not happen for another few books yet. Gotta get the Kaladin/Shallan/Adolin love triangle revved up first.
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Jan 27, 2014 14:59
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Eric the Mauve posted:I think Dalinar will make it, but I wouldn't sell Adolin any life insurance if I were you. Szeth will probably commit suicide or make some kind of other last-minute face turn. The dude is going crazier and crazier, and isn't holding his Shinese beliefs sacred anymore. His oath to do whatever his master says just because he's holding a special rock is a pretty hard-to-justify belief, especially considering his punishment is to be responsible for all the bad things he does, but have no ability to stop doing them. Kaladin is pretty badass, but he's not going to be a match for Szeth. Then again, maybe Jasnah or Shallan will just soulcast Szeth into a fart on the wind right as he's about to win. I doubt Szeth's climactic fight will be him and someone else swinging weapons and surge binding at each other, is all I'm saying. It's not an interesting climax to see which imaginary fighter is better. And he really can't win, because if he does, he kills all of the other POV characters.
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Jan 27, 2014 19:11
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I'm guessing that Szeth runs out of stormlight. He'll be facing a buncha other surgebinders, and as far as I can tell he kinda sucks at holding in stormlight compared to them.
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Jan 27, 2014 21:08
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Eric the Mauve posted:I think Dalinar will make it, but I wouldn't sell Adolin any life insurance if I were you. Or Renarin shows up in shardplate and saves the day at the expense of his legs, allowing him to be the wheelchaired knowledge dude every group story needs.
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Jan 27, 2014 21:42
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Nope, Renarin has Knight Radiant printed on his format
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Jan 27, 2014 23:23
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The Puppy Bowl posted:The UK cover looks like David Lynch's Dune mixed with medieval armor but still somehow bad. Have to say, I concur that the WoR UK cover isn't as good as most of them. It's gotten less stylised, more realistic, less... flowing. It's good, but it's not great.
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I take back what I said about Powder Mage being bad in this thread. Turns out it's just got a crappy first chapter. On chapter 9 now and it's written at least as well as Sanderson prose, with equal amounts of action.
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Jan 28, 2014 03:56
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Tunicate posted:I'm guessing that Szeth runs out of stormlight. He'll be facing a buncha other surgebinders, and as far as I can tell he kinda sucks at holding in stormlight compared to them. He's the most experienced combat trained Surgebinder on site aside from Jasnah I think, but might be hindered by not being empowered by the Oaths, and almost certainly not having fought other Surgebinders before.
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veekie posted:He's the most experienced combat trained Surgebinder on site aside from Jasnah I think, but might be hindered by not being empowered by the Oaths, and almost certainly not having fought other Surgebinders before. I'm picturing more a big sucking sound, and him suddenly falling to the ground
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veekie posted:He's the most experienced combat trained Surgebinder on site aside from Jasnah I think, but might be hindered by not being empowered by the Oaths, and almost certainly not having fought other Surgebinders before. I know we're just speculating here, but Szeth is being "controlled" by an oathstone. He may or may not have been empowered by the Radiants' Oaths, but he's definitely done something strange to get where he is, and oaths probably somehow factor in.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Nope, Renarin has Knight Radiant printed on his format I'm pretty convinced Renarin is going to be a major character in the series, that's why I think Adolin is doomed. The Kaladin/Adolin parallel if Adolin's weakling little brother gets shanked while Adolin is helpless is so obvious that it's got to be a red herring.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I'm pretty convinced Renarin is going to be a major character in the series, that's why I think Adolin is doomed. The Kaladin/Adolin parallel if Adolin's weakling little brother gets shanked while Adolin is helpless is so obvious that it's got to be a red herring. I'm kind of hoping that Adolin doesn't die because he's one of my favorite characters with his love for dueling, but it would make sense if he died. I think watching him interact with Kaladin could be really interesting, especially if he ever finds out what Amaram did. Hopefully he makes it through a few books before he dies. I mean it's going to be a ten book series, I think most of the book 1 cast has got a few books on them before they die. Then again, if every one of the ten books is a thousand pages long, Sanderson has more than enough space to introduce and kill off a hundred characters. Is there any info on whether Renarin is getting a viewpoint chapter for Words of Radiance? I kind of want to see things from his perspective.
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Infinite Karma posted:I know we're just speculating here, but Szeth is being "controlled" by an oathstone. He may or may not have been empowered by the Radiants' Oaths, but he's definitely done something strange to get where he is, and oaths probably somehow factor in. Gut feeling, Kaladin needs to awaken to the Second Ideal to beat Szeth.
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Infinite Karma posted:I know we're just speculating here, but Szeth is being "controlled" by an oathstone. He may or may not have been empowered by the Radiants' Oaths, but he's definitely done something strange to get where he is, and oaths probably somehow factor in. I was under the impression that the entire oathstone thing is just a weird custom the Shin have for people that do something Really Bad. He's not actually compelled to be bound by the oathstone, he chooses to be bound by it.
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Ithaqua posted:I was under the impression that the entire oathstone thing is just a weird custom the Shin have for people that do something Really Bad. He's not actually compelled to be bound by the oathstone, he chooses to be bound by it. I got the same impression - the Shin view stones as sacred to the point were even walking on one is blasphemous. The oathstone is just a simple rock, but creted/used by a people who view rock as sacred. Though Szeth seems to be coming to terms with the fact that his people's beliefs don't really hold up in a world where rocks cover everything.
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Jan 28, 2014 14:09
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Weekly Drug Fix in form of new WoR chapters!
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BananaNutkins posted:I take back what I said about Powder Mage being bad in this thread. Turns out it's just got a crappy first chapter. On chapter 9 now and it's written at least as well as Sanderson prose, with equal amounts of action. Yeah, its not high fiction, but it is well written enough and a unique enough magic system
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New preview chapters are up. Chapters Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Interlude I-1. And my theory above have been confirmed: Venli didn’t flinch. “The humans have Surgebinders.” “Perhaps not. It could have been an Honorblade.”
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Thoughts on the preview chapters: Parshendi are loving awesome and sound like the most complex system Sanderson has come up with yet. Really can't want to see more of that POV.
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Tunicate posted:Oh, and he isn't holding the looks like he already has as a single piece, my guess is they're dividing it up for each book http://art.marcsimonetti.com/127814/1270633/illustration/various-cover-arts at the very bottom, second to last, there's a huge painting with Kelsier, Vin, and Elend. Also that WoR teaser is killing me, I want the whole book!
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So has Words of Radiance ended up longer than Way of Kings? I seem to recall Sanderson saying it was shorter, but I just pre-ordered the audiobook and the Words of Radiance recording is slightly longer (46 hours vs 45 hours of WoK). Of course this is within the margin of error based on reading speed, but it implies at the very least they are of quite similar lenghts.
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Shakugan posted:So has Words of Radiance ended up longer than Way of Kings? I seem to recall Sanderson saying it was shorter, but I just pre-ordered the audiobook and the Words of Radiance recording is slightly longer (46 hours vs 45 hours of WoK). Of course this is within the margin of error based on reading speed, but it implies at the very least they are of quite similar lenghts. WoK was 1001 pages, WoR is 1088. It's longer, but the next books won't be - Sanderson has reached the limit of Tor's ability to bind books.
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Tunicate posted:WoK was 1001 pages, WoR is 1088. He's just following through on Robert Jordan's dream of forcing Tor to find a new binding method through sheer length.
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treeboy posted:looks like he already has as a single piece, my guess is they're dividing it up for each book Neato. I poked around to find a zoomed version, and it looks like he's got a slightly bigger one on his deviantart. http://marcsimonetti.deviantart.com/art/Mistborn-429867494
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ShadowGlass posted:New preview chapters are up. Chapters Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Interlude I-1. Adolin is great. I love how he is basically like a modern-day fencer who goes to his first tournament and is like "...gently caress you guys, you suck" and goes nuts ...Pleasedon'tdiepleasedon'tdiepleasedon'tdie
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Tunicate posted:WoK was 1001 pages, WoR is 1088. I remember reading somewhere that it isn't so much that Tor doesn't have presses that can bind books larger than WOR, but rather that the press that WOR has been scheduled to print on cannot bind a larger book. In theory, the next book could be bigger if they use a different press. I could be wrong but, from what I understand, press schedules are set far in advance and changing them is difficult.
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Speaking of the WoR cover art, it's funny in a way that it's a Kaladin cover given this is supposedly the/a Shallan book (haven't read the preview chapters). Sort of implies that the publishers realise that it's in their best interests to trick people into thinking it's a Kaladin focused book. I can't say I blaim them, Shallan is a terribly dull character, certainly in comparison to Kaladin and Dalinar, and it's a shame we're getting a book focused on her so soon... or at all really. I trust that it's happening for world building purposes and will all work out. But yeah, if it's necessary, it's a necessary evil. I really hope that Sanderson doesn't write himself into a Rand-esque corner where where we only get a handful of chapters from the perspective of everyone's favorite character and/or the protagonist per book. World building is great and all, but world building using uninteresting characters, especially when it takes up a large part of a book, is one of the most frustrating things about epic fantasy.
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