Brandon Sanderson’s Main Project for 2019 is Stormlight Four, and 5 Other...
“This post gets longer and longer each year,” Brandon Sanderson mused at the conclusion of this year’s State of the Sanderson update. Yet the irony is that the prolific epic fantasy author expects for...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Interlude Six—Venli
Singers and Listeners and Rereaders unite! Or… something like that. Welcome back to the Oathbringer reread, as we finish the year with the final interlude before Part Three begins. We’ve got a lot of...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapters Fifty-Eight and Fifty-Nine
Welcome back to the Oathbringer reread! We hope that you had an amazing holiday break. Alice and I are ready to start off the new year right as we delve into Part Three—Aubree will be back next week....
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty
After a long time away, we’re finally back with a Kaladin POV chapter! (It’s been so long. We missed you, you poor emo Windrunner, you.) He, Shallan, Adolin, and Elhokar are on their way to Kholinar to...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-One
Greetings, fair rereaders, and welcome back to Kholinar! It’s sneaky-time for our intrepid crew, as they take on some unexpected disguises and attempt to make their way into the city without being...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need to Understand Magic: The Gathering to Fully Enjoy Brandon...
Magic: The Gathering is the most successful and enduring trading card game of all time. It started life in 1993 when brilliant designer Richard Garfield and a plucky young company called Wizards of the...
View Article5 Young Adult Novels That Blew Me Away
For a long time, I didn’t read much YA. I’m old enough that our modern, awesome version of the genre didn’t exist when I was a teen—I often joke that all we had to read were Newbery Award-winning books...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Two
Greetings and hallucinations salutations, O Fair and Friendly Rereaders! (No greetings if you’re unfair or unfriendly? Hmmm… maybe I’d better rethink that greeting.) Welcome back to the Oathbringer...
View ArticleRead “A Fire Within the Ways,” a Wheel of Time Deleted Novella Featured in...
Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Three
Hello, there, friends of the Cosmere! Welcome back to the Oathbringer reread for this week’s installment, in which Shallan has some mighty sharp adventures. Also, many-layered disguises. Come on in,...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Four
Top of the morning to you, oh fine rereaders of the Oathbringer! Welcome back to the excruciatingly detailed investigation, as we sit in on a highly informative conversation between Dalinar and the...
View Article6 SFF Characters That Tend Towards Lawful Good
We love a Lawful Good warrior in fiction—those who believe in the inherent goodness of others, and in the ability of laws to impart fairness and equality. They typically find a place in law...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Five
Greetings, fellow soldiers and scholars! This week our intrepid friend Alice is imprisoned in an icy cage of power outages and snowstorms and hence won’t be joining us, but Aubree and I are ready to...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Six
Well, I hope you’re all prepared for Dalinar being an absolute twit, because in this chapter he’s putting his hat in the ring for the award of All Time Worst Husband Ever. He also gets highly equivocal...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Seven
I hope you’re all ready to sit criss-cross apple sauce, because this week Uncle Hoid’s in the house and ready to regale us all with a lovely tale of arrogance, trickery, and loss. It’s always a fun...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Eight
This week’s reread is featuring Hoid, so you just know it’s going to be full of witticisms and mysteries! Our favorite world-hopper’s never straight forward about anything, and he’s certainly in rare...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Nine
Greetings, intrepid rereaders, and welcome back to the lovely besieged city of Kholinar! Home of secretive humans, creepy Cultists, creepier Unmade, and the occasional Voidbringer! Oh, yeah. This is...
View ArticleCosmere Cuisine: More Meals Inspired by Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Books
Welcome Sanderson Fans, Cosmerenauts, and foodies to Tor.com’s newest adventures through the culinary Cosmere! Here we ask the important questions about what the people on the worlds of Brandon...
View ArticleOathbringer Reread: Chapter Seventy
Well, hello there! You’re here? It must be Thursday again, then. Well, what a deal—we’ve got a new chapter to reread together! This one is all about Kaladin being surprised by a bunch of soldiers and...
View ArticleSolving the Riddle of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn
Some books are mysteries and some books are ballads. Some are manifestos, or how-tos, some are dear-god-do-not-dos. Brandon Sanderson’s books are puzzles: well-crafted, meticulously put together, and...
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