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New Sanderson AMA at https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/5t9nyy/iamonce_againa_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson/ . Nothing really noteworthy if you're already a reader, mostly just reinforces that he is Nice as gently caress.
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He had some interesting answers such as not wanting any of his books to be turned into an anime (thank god) and regrets about Fain and Mat in the wheel of time.
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Feb 11, 2017 09:48
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The Gardenator posted:He had some interesting answers such as not wanting any of his books to be turned into an anime (thank god) and regrets about Fain and Mat in the wheel of time. I can totally picture Stormlight as an anime. The fight at the end of WoR was basically straight out of Dragonball Z. Just need to have characters powering up for 50 pages.
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Feb 11, 2017 10:38
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I think he meant Anime, and not just simply animated? I could see him not wanting it done in that style while still being fine with a more western animation style. Now I'm picturing mistborn done with the tech that made Archer, just with a borderlands style cell shaded filter.
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Feb 11, 2017 15:43
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:I can totally picture Stormlight as an anime. The fight at the end of WoR was basically straight out of Dragonball Z. Just need to have characters powering up for 50 pages.
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Feb 11, 2017 20:34
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Cicero posted:Stormlight Archives as a cartoon series by the team that did The Last Airbender/Korra. With the art style of Samurai Jack.
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Feb 11, 2017 23:20
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And the voice acting from the Phillips CDI Zelda games!
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Cicero posted:Stormlight Archives as a cartoon series by the team that did The Last Airbender/Korra. No. Just no. High budget HBO series or bust.
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Feb 12, 2017 15:03
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gohmak posted:No. Just no. High budget HBO series or bust. Honestly, that one end bit of Rogue One really seemed like it could have been subbed out with Szeth shanking guards with a shardblade without any real trouble. Throw that as the first bit of the first episode of an HBO series, then go straight to Kaladin in the slave cages.
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Feb 12, 2017 22:00
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seaborgium posted:Honestly, that one end bit of Rogue One really seemed like it could have been subbed out with Szeth shanking guards with a shardblade without any real trouble. Throw that as the first bit of the first episode of an HBO series, then go straight to Kaladin in the slave cages. https://youtu.be/CvVvwh3BRq8
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Feb 13, 2017 01:29
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The Mistborn novels would be really cool as an HBO show I think, the dystopian ash covered world would be pretty cool on screen, and inquisitors. But so would the stormlight novels. Really either of them would be fine but the important thing is they'd have to be game of thrones style one season worth of episodes per book.
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Feb 13, 2017 09:11
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The epic tv series like GoT have really become the gold standard for fantasy novel adaptations
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Feb 13, 2017 18:53
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The Final Empire would work better as a movie than a dragged out season. Stormlightt Archives is written that you could take any two chapters as an hour episode ending with a death rattle.
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Feb 13, 2017 19:54
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Legion is still my favorite Sanderson work that should be on film. Too bad the new Xmen Legion show just came out.
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Feb 14, 2017 09:00
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Democratic Pirate posted:Legion is still my favorite Sanderson work that should be on film. Too bad the new Xmen Legion show just came out. That super confused me, because the main character in both is a schizophrenic. I started watching it thinking it was based on the Sanderson novel, and couldn't understand what the mutant angle was all about until I read the blurb properly.
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Feb 14, 2017 10:08
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Yeah, I'm super disappointed about that as well. I think Sanderson's even came out and said that FOX doing Marvel's Legion killed any chance of getting those books adapted to TV or film.
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flosofl posted:Yeah, I'm super disappointed about that as well. I think Sanderson's even came out and said that FOX doing Marvel's Legion killed any chance of getting those books adapted to TV or film. He mentioned that they are looking into using an alternative name, but ya that's what he basically said somewhere.
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Feb 14, 2017 16:19
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I hope the Reckoners project gets going though, it'll be pretty fun.
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Snapshot is OUT TODAY at your favorite e-book retailer. Will report back later with thoughts.
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Feb 17, 2017 13:18
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Jorenko posted:Snapshot is OUT TODAY at your favorite e-book retailer. Will report back later with thoughts. Sanderson continues to make drat fine short stories. This definitely had a Phillip K Dick vibe to it, which he himself acknowledges in the postscript.
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Subvisual Haze posted:Sanderson continues to make drat fine short stories. This definitely had a Phillip K Dick vibe to it, which he himself acknowledges in the postscript. This one took me a couple chapters to get into, but I think it got pretty dang good. I predicted the last twist (as he mentioned in the postscript, it's an easy one), but the other one threw me. Overall a pretty good story, I think.
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I really enjoyed Legion and Skin Deep. Has he written other sci-fi ?
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gohmak posted:I really enjoyed Legion and Skin Deep. Has he written other sci-fi ? Less the sci, more the fi, but Firstborn and now Snapshot, too. And if you count Legion series, then the Reckoners are also definitely kind of sci fi.
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Feb 18, 2017 15:00
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I was at a robotics competition this entire weekend, which meant a lot of time to kill on the bus, between matches, and so on. I had never read any Sanderson before, I took my kindle and dug into the Mistborn Trilogy. I started and finished The Final Empire, and got somewhere around halfway through The Well of Ascension. Overall, I've been enjoying a lot, and definitely plan to finish. I think what I enjoy the most is the worldbuilding. The magic system is great, and extremely unique. Definitely a welcome departure from gray-haired wizards with staffs (staves?). It was really learning more about the metals and more about the world's secrets that kept me interested. The characters seem solid, though some of the crew members feel a little one dimensional and narrowly defined by their particular quirks. The philosophical brute, the smooth soother, the grouchy pessimistic smoker, and so on. I did see the the fact that the lord ruler was a feruchemist coming as soon as they started talking about his rings and other jewelry. I didn't see the the fact that he was actually Rashek coming though. I was theorizing that Kelsier was wrong about feruchemists not being able to steal powers saved up from others, at least in the lord ruler's case. I was figuring the secret room that the ruler retreated to would be some sort of ritual place, where he stole youth and power from other feruchemists, or maybe from skaa. I got that one wrong. I am curious to see where things go. My guess is that the atium reserves probably don't exist. The lord ruler was using it all to make whatever the atium alloy is, and somehow using that to keep bad things out of the world. With that done, bad things are coming back. Filthy Monkey fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Filthy Monkey posted:I was at a robotics competition this entire weekend, which meant a lot of time to kill on the bus, between matches, and so on. I had never read any Sanderson before, I took my kindle and dug into the Mistborn Trilogy. I started and finished The Final Empire, and got somewhere around halfway through The Well of Ascension. Overall, I've been enjoying a lot, and definitely plan to finish. Interesting speculations. Keep us posted about your progress. Well of Ascension can drag a little bit, but Hero of Ages more than makes up for it. I won't comment on the spoilered parts, except to note that I did not see as much coming as you did when I first read the trilogy.
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Mar 6, 2017 14:45
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The atium alloy is called malatium. Not gonna answer anything else.
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Mar 6, 2017 20:27
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A few things won't make sense or get fully explained untill secret history so check that out too once you do the trilogy. I'm doing a reread too and enjoy seeing all the foreshadowing I missed before. 
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Avalerion posted:A few things won't make sense or get fully explained untill secret history so check that out too once you do the trilogy. Don't read Secret History before finishing the three Wax & Wayne books that are out now!
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I don't think it really spoils anything for those, or does it? Secret history ends up long before that era. They are good though so yea read that too, and then the rest of Sanderson's cosmere stuff too while you are at it, it's all good.
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It's more that secret history is in itself a huge spoiler by tying together certain things on the level of shards and cosmere.
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Avalerion posted:I don't think it really spoils anything for those, or does it? Secret history ends up long before that era. Remember that Bands of Mourning starts off acting like Rashek had a way to survive his fight with Vin, then made the Bands and became the Sovereign down in the south, only to have Hoid give Wax a copper medallion with a memory from the Sovereign's pov showing the scars on his arms implying that it was actually Kelsier.
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Avalerion posted:I don't think it really spoils anything for those, or does it? Secret history ends up long before that era. Also spoils who Khriss is when she shows up at the party in New Seran and dances with Wax briefly, as well as Hoid's significance if you haven't read Stormlight. Knowing that Kelsier is alive in general really takes away from some of the mythology and post-catacendre worldbuilding that Sanderson introduces in the W&W books.
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To me reading the books as events in them happen chronologically makes sense, I can see why others might feel differently though. But I'm generally not bothered by spoiling myself anyway so if someone is, yea probably take those guy's advice over mine then. Secret history/The Bands of Mourning ending: Like I already figured Kelsier's not really gone from interviews and such so for me the surprise was more about finding out why and how. Avalerion fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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aparmenideanmonad posted:Also spoils who Khriss is when she shows up at the party in New Seran and dances with Wax briefly, as well as Hoid's significance if you haven't read Stormlight. That's not really a spoiler worth avoiding the book for. Hell, if anything it gives a better appreciation for the scene because you understand what's going on aside from "weird lady" The other points are valid. Really, I'd say that Secret History is fair game after the original trilogy. Best read after W&W, but since from their books' perspective things are based on unreliable narrators (they're dealing with centuries-old history; things get fudged) it doesn't kill the experience. OAquinas fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Mar 7, 2017 18:34
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It definitely robs the very last scene of Bands of Mourning some of it's wham factor if you read Secret History first.
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Yeah, don't get me wrong: I agree that having read Secret History actually adds something to a lot of those scenes - but that's the sense in which it's spoiling them. Those additional bits were designed to be added and appreciated on a re-read. If you read them as published, you are experiencing the material with a set of gaps that is intentionally illuminating on the re-read. If those gaps aren't present, then you are missing experiencing the events sympathetically with the characters. I mean, Sanderson makes a pretty big effort to not be a standard 3rd person omniscient writer so as to preserve some twists - why throw that effort away by reading one of his worst and shortest efforts in the series out of order?
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Mar 8, 2017 09:37
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oh no what if someone doesnt read a book right
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Mar 8, 2017 16:19
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Captain Monkey posted:oh no what if someone doesnt read a book right They could die.
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OneTwentySix posted:They could die. oh no!!!
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New Powder Mage book is out now, Sins of Empire.
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