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Nope! Thankfully. I'd be really annoyed if there weren't more Wax and Wayne books, with that open-ended ending.

Okay, point. I always forget that vacuum's a good insulator.

Right, but I'm saying, when the amount of brass you need to survive the trip exceeds your entire weight, this may not be the most efficient means of space travel.

I really can't think of a situation where surge in Feruchemy would ever get confused with Surges in Surgebinding. One is a verb, the other is a noun. For one, so far in Stormlight Archive, you never see "Szeth Surged something," it's "Szeth Lashed," or "Jasnah Soulcast". Is that ever going to get confused with the context of surging that we're talking about here? "Wax surged his steelmind" very different. So I guess I see the objection to surge as "oh no it's a common word!" However, the usage is totally independent. Even if I wrote a cage match battle where Szeth fights Wax (the only time where it would be ambiguous), they are very distinctive. In this light, I still fully support surge as the verb we want, because there isn't an actual context that would be written which makes it confusing. By all means, try and come up with an example where it would be. Surge is a stronger verb than anything else here, and let me consult the dictionary a moment... Wow, that's like the exact definition of what we want. But no, you're totally right, let's throw away a precise, evocative word because it might be ambiguous in a context that would never happen in any books, despite the fact that even if it did happen, there isn't an example of a sentence where you could actually make it confusing. "Wax surged weight" > "Wax overtapped weight" Happyman makes a good point regarding whether we even need a term. I personally think it's useful to use it for theoretical discussion, if only so people don't refer to it as Compounding. And if we pick a term, surge sounds the best of them all, tenfold. We don't refer to flaring as overburning, after all. EDIT: The only context where Feruchemical surging would be ambiguous with the Surges in Stormlight is if Surge suddenly became a verb in later books. Yes, it is possible, I suppose. But from what we know, Surge is a noun. Surgebinding has a symmetry with Voidbinding, and you don't "Void" something. You wouldn't "Surge" something either.

One difficulty of simply jumping into space is that there's no air. Sure, Feruchemy has a solution for that, but that doesn't help your body exploding from the lack of pressure, which it will before you freeze to death (I'm fairly sure). EDIT: Looks like Cuaiir ninja'd a reply about pressure before me Plus, space is ~2.7 degrees Kelvin. Room temperature, 296 K. Do you really think you can survive a temperature difference that high across a very long trip in space, even with Compounding? The sheer amount of warmth you'd need to store signals to me that the weight of the metal would get prohibitive. You'd need a spaceship at the very least. Brandon did say that FTL travel has something to do with time bubbles, so I'm pretty sure that would be a propulsion thing. Brandon isn't saying how it would work, but I do believe that he implied it was possible, through some unknown means [citation needed]. I'm trying to find the quote which gave me that impression, but it wasn't where I thought it was.

I'm guessing Jasnah will get a book in the second five book arc, when (I presume) people start fighting Odium and Voidbringers directly.

I noticed that too, which is very strange. In any case I look forward to seeing it

That... that is awesome.

That's a really valid point. I like this theory now even more because of this.

Emails have not gone out yet; I have like a thousand things that are due tomorrow which are distracting me. They will absolutely go out tomorrow.

I had thought this was posted in Around the Cosmere, but apparently it fell through the cracks. The good people at Suvudu posted a recording of Brandon Sanderson's Seattle signing: http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2011/11/event-video-brandon-sanderson-qa.html There was some news on the publication schedule. After Stormlight 2, he'll do an Alloy sequel. He plotted three (maybe four) books with Wax and Wayne. So it'd look like: Stormlight 2 Alloy 2 Stormlight 3 Alloy 3 etc. He did say that he wants to do an Elantris sequel, so instead of an Alloy book he will probably do that for a year. You may have heard that Stormlight Archive, while being a ten book series, is actually two five-book arcs, and Brandon revealed (first time I'm hearing it, at least), each book's character focus: 1. Kaladin 2. Shallan 3. Szeth 4. Navanni 5. Dalinar This kind of surprised me; I wasn't expecting Navanni to be book four. This is awesome. The best part was when he said in between the two five book arcs of Stormlight, he'd write the second Mistborn trilogy.

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Mi'ch was telling me that Brandon said that their similarity in names wasn't a coincidence. (That's hearsay, of course, but I trust Mi'ch.) So yeah, I agree.

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Frankly, I was rather confused where the Endowment as a girl theory came from because of this. But, to play devil's advocate, I think you're vastly overestimating people's ability to understand Shards. I don't think it's too out of the question that people could have described Austre wrong. Maybe, maybe not.

. It didn't taste

of wooden doors.

. The banjo opened