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Words of radiance has been delayed. Looks like March 4th is the next target.
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Warbreaker seems a lot more videogamey than it should be because of the built in powerlevel/mp meter mechanic.
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Aug 13, 2013 01:50
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Antti posted:It feels like an underutilized idea in general - we have boatloads of pre-modern era fantasy, plenty of urban fantasy, but virtually no fantasy in a futuristic setting. Well duh. Everyone knows that if it's in the future it isn't 'magic', it's 'psionics'.
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Aug 14, 2013 00:23
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ShadowGlass posted:Strange, I can't find the reference to this in the book, but I was sure I'd read somewhere that forgetting his wife was not the curse. Maybe it was an interview or something. Other way around, it's confirmed that the forgetting was his curse, but we have no idea what the boon is. Curses are all neurological in origin, but boons can be anything, it seems, since at least one guy got a bunch of grain/
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Aug 21, 2013 19:57
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uh zip zoom posted:So he never thought to ask his kids about their mother? Or did the person who took his memories tell everybody to just not let dalinar in on the secret, a la eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? In one ear, out the other.
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Aug 24, 2013 13:43
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thespaceinvader posted:This is something that bothers me, as well. There's SO much worldbuilding and cosmology that is released through fucknowswhat gateways, I certainly don't have a clue, which ties all of Sanderson's work together in the most intricate of ways, and it bugs me that I don't know where it's all coming from, and am missing some really significant details in the stories as a result - for instance, I'm pretty sure that all 16 non-God metals from Mistborn have actually been detailed somewhere (at least in what their Allomantic forms do), but it drat sure wasn't on the pages of any of the novels. It's kinda irksome. I know from his podcast how much planning he does, but I'd kinda prefer if he kept it away from the public except when he's releasing it in books. It was definitely in the RPGs, and there were some two-sentence descriptions in the back of Alloy of Law.
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Aug 26, 2013 02:40
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uh zip zoom posted:The thought of a mistborn surgebinder is… Well… That would be a really interesting passage to read about and would probably make me fully erect. Apparently there's going to be some sort of cross-system battle or something at the end of stormlight 2. Possibly involving awakeners.
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Aug 26, 2013 16:57
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uh zip zoom posted:So wait… Does that mean he already planned out mistborn before he even started writing the way of Kings? That said, what kind of chronology is there for the Cosmere? I think it's roughly publication order, but the newer books are breaking the pattern?
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Aug 28, 2013 15:34
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404GoonNotFound posted:Actually, he was "busy" in the second book (although his effects were seen, see my earlier post) and Vin cased him out from afar in the third book before choosing not to meet him due to looking untrustworthy. In the second book he's hanging out with the terris guys, leading their refugees to safety.
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Aug 28, 2013 22:35
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I don't think Hoid shows up in White Sands but I don't know if it's supposed be a Cosmere book and was just befre he envisioned Hoid or a stand alone story. White sands? I haven't read that.
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Aug 29, 2013 05:49
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It's not bad, definitely feels like an early work. All the normal criticisms of Sanderson are present, character-wise the protagonist are basically a carbon copy of the ones from Elantris. The world was acually pretty interesting, but the story itself kind of felt like a Star Wars/Dune mash up. It's all the normal Sanderson problems taken up to eleven. I did find it kinda hilarious that literally everyone who could possibly be a traitor was a traitor.
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Sep 4, 2013 17:56
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JagGator posted:I like how he has a pen in his pocket. Because you know he probably cranked out another novella on the back of his placemat while he waited for the other awards to be presented. With a new, trophy-based magic system.
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Sep 5, 2013 00:37
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NinjaDebugger posted:It wouldn't be the first series to have power vary inversely with experience. The Young Wizards series did it. As your power declines, you just compensate by applying your power more skillfully. Yeah, and I always thought that was dumb.
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Sep 8, 2013 08:04
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I guessed it was either going to be not being afraid of Steelheart, or being attacked by an epic and a human simultaneously, after the first chapter preview came out. Didn't get the megan thing - thought that she was a gifter, and the 'second-newest person to join' was a coverstory. Other than that, it felt a lot like Darker Than Black.
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Sep 29, 2013 22:34
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L-O-N posted:Really? Because I can't recall any swearing in any of his other books either. I think Hoid calls someone a slut once.
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Sep 30, 2013 02:30
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There are also a lot of 'hell's and 'bloody hells' in Mistborn . And, surprisingly, nobody ever uses "Deepness!" as a curse.
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Sep 30, 2013 09:18
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thespaceinvader posted:It wouldn't surprise me if this was Cosmere, but I'd find it a little odd, given that it's an explicitly alternate-Earth setting. I kind of hope not. Nah, steelheart isn't cosmere. I'm kinda assuming Calamity is a person, given that book three is 'calamity' and book two is 'firefight'... having it not be a person would break the trend.
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Sep 30, 2013 21:23
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Also that cosmere short story in the Dangerous Women anthology.
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Oct 1, 2013 06:36
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Xachariah posted:More disabilities amongst the people in Sanderson's books would be fairly refreshing. I mean, for being dystopias the people in the Mistborn and Reckoner's worlds are perplexingly perfect. No one has survived a disease or gotten into an accident or anything? No one happens to have a mental illness or genetic disorder? No asthma, back pains or deafness due to industrial machinery? At least one of the guys in kelsier's crew broke his leg and it didn't heal right. Zane was crazy even before Ruin spiked him (Ruin said he wasn't, but Ruin lied), as was Vin's mom.
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Oct 3, 2013 16:52
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Frabba posted:Regarding the next book: It is not that surprising that it will not be in Chicago, there is going to be a massive power vacuum from the death of Steelheart and Nightweilder and it is unlikely that firefight is strong enough on her own to consolidate power under herself, or if she even has that kind of desire after the resurrection. It would make sense to see her ending up as a high level lackey for the big bad in NY. Although Conduit could probably keep control of a lot of stuff
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Oct 4, 2013 06:12
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So, with all the signings happening, is anyone going to be in a position to go to one of them?
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Oct 8, 2013 00:14
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Kreeblah posted:He hits up Seattle on pretty much every tour (as do most authors I follow), so if I don't see him this time around, I'll go the next time he's in town. Ah, he's hitting Seattle exactly a week from now. Would it be too much to ask for you to record it, or at least write down any questions you ask him? quote:Big List of Signing Locations! EDIT: I just spammed half the thread in PMs. I hope this is acceptable - I heard apparently they look down on people begging publicly or something. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Oct 8, 2013 |
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Oct 8, 2013 05:15
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Kreeblah posted:I have no idea how well my new phone would record something like that, but I can give it a go if I'm there. If that turns out crappy or something, then at the very least, I can take notes about what gets asked. And thanks for the PM. I'll have to read through that stuff after I'm done with the new Scott Lynch book (which just came out). Thanks. Any idea what you're going to ask him? I checked out a couple of signing reports from last week. The Mistborn video game has been pushed back to 2015, but the Mistborn TV rights just got sold, so that's cool.
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Oct 8, 2013 06:32
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Argas posted:Any chance I could get one my way? No prob
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Oct 8, 2013 07:31
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The Glumslinger posted:YES!!! Doesn't necessarily mean that anything's going to get made, but hey, money in the bank. Brandon didn't say who it was, just that they were a fairly big tv company, and that he wouldn't have sold the rights if it weren't for the success of serialized things like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Apparently the option for Alcatraz movie rights paid Brandon more than all the books put together, even though the studio just held onto it for years and never did anything with it.
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Oct 8, 2013 20:02
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Cicero posted:How do these usually work? They do questions, then signing at the end? After that's done, there's the signing. Brandon encourages fans to ask him questions in person while he's signing their books because he's a nice guy (and I suspect because signing for hours on end with no conversation but 'I really like your books' is probably a bit tedious). He used to write out random cosmere hints on request, but he doesn't do that anymore - it's all questions. For spoilers or undecided things, he might give you a RAFO, which stands for Read And Find Out, a phrase he inherited from Robert Jordan. Rarer is the PAFO, which is 'Go ask Peter Ahlstrom, he's the guy I hired to handle continuity and I can't recall this particular detail at the moment'. From the signings I've been to, most authors tend to have the people who bought whatever book is being promoted from the store in the front of the queue, and each cycle through you get three or four books signed - so if you bring a collection of like, fifteen books, expect to go through the line a few times. Typically you don't technically need to buy anything, but it's polite.
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Oct 9, 2013 04:58
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bowmore posted:I don't think I'd wait longer than an hour to get a signature, I guess they don't really mean much to me. Meeting the guy would be more important to me. It's a souvenir, you get to hang out with other fans, and it makes the book more personal. And if it's a new release signing, who cars if you have to wait in line? You literally just got a new book.
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Oct 9, 2013 06:05
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bowmore posted:Yeah I appreciate that it might mean that. I can understand waiting hours in line for a brand new book and getting it signed would be a bonus, I still don't think I would do it though. Well, you get the book right at the beginning, so you can read it in line. Getting the book is the quick bit.
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Oct 9, 2013 06:29
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There's a WoR prologue reading on youtube as well. Not sure if I linked it.
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Oct 11, 2013 06:20
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keiran_helcyan posted:Sanderson seems to love groan-inducing, lame, Dad humor. It's an acquired taste. He used to put lame puns of the week up on his blog ( http://mistborn.livejournal.com/ )
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Oct 13, 2013 18:09
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Democratic Pirate posted:Wait what's the Sixth of Dusk thing? Sanderson has so much going on that it can be hard to keep up with. Some story with magic birds. From a prompt on his writing blog apparently. A fragment of it is up on steelhunt.
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Oct 14, 2013 23:29
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Kreeblah posted:Blerg. I ended up staying a lot later at work than I intended, so by the time I got out of there, I wouldn't have been able to get to Sanderson's signing before 6:30 or so. Last time I showed up that late, I didn't get out until after midnight, so I'm gonna have to catch him the next time he's in town. Darn. You're still a great dude for offering, though!
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Oct 15, 2013 04:55
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In principle you could shoot him with a hemalurgic spike to steal his gold (there was a question last year about that). Problem is, aiming like that you'd basically need divine intervention to actually hit the spike point. Presumably said divine intervention is one of the reasons the lord ruler didn't like guns. Too easy to spike people subtly.
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Oct 17, 2013 00:19
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Mortanis posted:The Lord Ruler survived decapitation supposedly. Was that likely because he also had Pewter to help with the physical healing? Apparently he healed up so fast the blade never managed to sever the entire neck.
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Oct 17, 2013 16:35
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Steelhunt just added a shallan's sketchbook. Seems to be of some sort of giant... jellyfish...island... turtle monster.
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Oct 18, 2013 07:44
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thespaceinvader posted:Basically, I was countering the argument that the power=dick thing is pure human psychology (i.e. absolute power corrupts absolutely because people are natively dicks, they just have too many limits to exercise it) - that's pretty clearly not the case. The powers make the Epics evil when the Epics use them, but not when Gifted to non-Epics (apparently). It's apparently a concentration thing - gifting all to one person *does* make them evil.
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Oct 20, 2013 18:58
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Walh Hara posted:So, apparantly one of the steelhunt excerpts is from Words of Radiance. What's the best way for me to get that excerpt? If it matters, I'm currently in Ireland and I don't have PM's enabled. If you have a reddit I can send it there.
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Oct 23, 2013 17:51
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Xachariah posted:Can I have it too? I have PM's. Sent. Interesting, in a few weeks it looks like Sanderson is doing some event with Paolini and Dashner in NY. Seems like a bizarre combination of authors. They also did a twitter chat quote:Mr Rippers @Enchantedbooks 45m Wait a second! They were on TWO plane rides and no collaboration has manifested? Unacceptable! Tunicate fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Oct 25, 2013 01:18
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thespaceinvader posted:You'd want it to? I'm not sure I want Mistborn|Eragon.
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Oct 25, 2013 15:51
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omnibobb posted:Can someone explain Compounding to me? Basically, you take 10 hp of damage to create 10 black mana and put it in your goldmind. Then, you eat your goldmind, discarding it to the graveyard. Doing that gets you ten times the mana you put in, so you now have 100 black mana. Take your 100 black mana and put it in 10 goldminds. Tap goldmind #1 and convert 10 black mana into 10 hp. You now have 90 black mana stored. If you ever take damage again, you can turn the stored mana into hp as usual, and you can always take your stored 90 and turn it into 900 - so long as you have some goldminds to put it in. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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