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Yeah I was talking to the thread starter. M'ich posted while I was posting.

You can actually email Brandon and get the first White Sand book. If he's not busy. It's pretty alright. Rough by his current standards. Lots of sand. White sand. Also: Could "Sixth of Dusk" be that psychic bird thing? I didn't know it was Cosmere when they brainstormed it.

Aw, I clicked on this thread thinking it was going to be a Cosmere mashup with Breaking Bad.

Not really compatible with Otaku classifications, but I always interpreted Steris as being somewhere on the spectrum.

If Warbreaker is the upper limit for sexual encounters, I can't imagine Shardlet is going to be pleased with anything after the first book in Wheel of Time.

This thread is from 2010.

Could also have something to do with population densities. All the inhabitants of Scadrial are concentrated into two relatively small areas.

Don't joke that could happen. And it would probably be made of Sharpie and then nothing could stop it.

I want to say they numbered like a hundred copies? I don't know if that's true or not or if that guess is high or low. I'm pretty solid on the number of people there because they called out numbers to get in line and there were only a few people after my friend who was number 32. They didn't do another call for numbers after that. But then, some people bought more then one copy and I don't know if they received more than one number for the line. I don't know if the number was for numbering the book or organizing the line. Also, some people came up in pairs with one number/book. So maybe like 50 people? Well, there was also Tor staff. So that probably added on some as well. It wasn't empty, just not packed like the Towers of Midnight signing. But then, I think that was on a weekend. I dunno, Tuesday night plus manhattan. I put this on the other thread, but for pretty much anyone who lived nearby but wasn't in one of the boroughs (NJ, even slightly upstate NY) it would have probably taken less time to drive to the PA signing than get into the city. It took my friend maybe two hours each way and she lives right near the NJ transit line. Sounds like there were more people at the PA signing.

Weird, there were only 40 at the NYC signing. But then, New York is weird about fantasy books (I've always thought) and most people who don't live in one of the boroughs probably opted to drive to the PA signing rather than schlep into Manhattan. Takes about the same time.

Can't access that at work, anything specifically cool/new? What was the reading?

Obviously the perfect defense is acid chalk.

You mean that you think you'd make enough money with the book to offset the cost? Or is that an official offer? If you sell your book, they don't charge you for the classes.

Nope, but it sounds cool if it's cheap/free. Seeing as it's Stanford, I'm guessing not?

I was at this event. It was pretty fun and relaxed. He was numbering books, but since there were only like 40 people there, most of the numbered ones are still on the shelf. If people are interested in that kind of thing, they should call Books of Wonder in NYC. ALSO One thing from the reading that the post leaves out is that Brandon mentioned that the IQ flux was Teravangian's boon and and his curse all in one. I don't remember if that had been confirmed before. I think had been speculated that sometimes the boon and the curse were the same thing. If that's not news, my apologies.

... I'd never heard that explanation before. Are you sure that's true? I remember Sazed gave Vin a metalmind for her to try to burn in TFE. She could feel his power inside it but not access it. So presumably, the power does exist in the metalmind, at least partially. No?

All the more reason there wouldn't be a distinction between nutrients and toxins.

I can't tell if you're arguing for or against. Iron or Zinc are nutrients. Mercury and Lead are toxins.

Wouldn't Lerasium + Atium just make someone an Atium misting? If it did something else, then there would be no way to make an atium misting. On a tangent: Did we ever get a confirmation that Atium Mistings are real? Wouldn't it kind of make sense for Atium, like Lerasium, to be burnable by everyone? I mean, I guess if that were the case, it would take some oomph out of the last 1/4th of HoA, but we already know that Preservation was fudging some of the rules for symbolism's sake. If anyone could burn Atium, then keeping it so scarce that no one could experiment very far with it or waste it on someone who wasn't mistborn would keep that in the dark... If Lerasium can be burned by anyone, can anyone also use it as a metalmind?

...being dehydrated doesn't make you more drunk. It's just a side effect of the alcohol. eating beforehand makes it harder to get drunk, but that's a physical side effect of the food being in your stomach and decreasing the rate at which it enters your blood. It doesn't have anything to do nutrients. So, by the interpretation as it currently stands, I don't think bendalloy could make you more drunk. Tapping it for hydration would probably help with a hangover. Or, you know, prevent it if you tapped it for hydration while you're drinking. The feruchemical version of the smart drinker's practice of drinking a glass of water with each drink. However, I'd have to point out that it seems a bit of a waste to tap bendalloy in that case when you could just, you know, drink a glass of water. Commenting on the main subject, I think whether you could store alcohol or other toxins/psychoactive chemicals, probably depends on what constitutes a "nutrient". Because if it just means something non-caloric that your body happens to use, then it seems like it should include alcohol, toxins, and psychoactive substances like thc. Your body uses thc, it stores it in fat like vitamin a... I don't really see distinction. In fact, if it didn't work like that, it would probably be very easy for subsumers to poison themselves, absorbing a whole chinese dinner's worth of msg without any of the fat or caloric intake that would normally allow their body to process it.

If I had to guess, I'd say it has something to do with the fact that Sanderson is not as established a YA author as he is an adult, epic fantasy author. The NYC release signing site, Books of Wonder, might be some sort of an institution in YA/Middlegrade market (at least their website makes them look like it). According to their blog, they host a good number of industry events. Since Sanderson just bought the rights back on Alcatraz, he's going to have a lot more books in print in YA/Middlegrade market soon than he has in the last five years or so. Edit: I accidentally deleted my last paragraph where I tied everything together to say that IF it's an important bookstore in NYC as far as YA/Middlegrade goes an IF it also doesn't do midnight releases (and what with kids and stuff I'd guess that's the case) then that's probably why there is no midnight release. Just pretend I tied that together really well.

But wasn't the whole point of the pits that the atium geodes were hard to find? Like, if you didn't find one a week, they'd kill you. And this was a thing that happened quite regularly? Unless he found some sort of storeroom (and seeing as most of the atium was staying inside the pits with the first generation, i don't see why they would need one) Kelsier shouldn't have had more than a single bead of atium. Am I forgetting something?

I dunno. We never really see stories where magic powers are common knowledge and built into modern society. Sports could be a pure meritocracy. Could a Gasper elevate their physical ability enough to compete against a Thug? Could they outrun someone with the ability to store Speed?

Sounds like it could mean a traveler?

NYC Signing is next Tuesday. Anyone else going?