Basel Gill

Isn't having the ebook kind of redundant if you already own the physical book?

Agreed, I spent years trying to get my boss into it without any luck, even though she has been a hardcore fan of many other SF shows.

Okay, so I'm about halfway into the first book of Mistborn. It's my first read, and Kell is on his visit to the caves to inspect the army that is being raised. He does a lot of consulting with Ham and prepares to let Yeden take command of the soldiers. While this is going on, we find out that Ham's full name is "Hammond", and being in command of the army, a few times he is referred to as "General Hammond". I can't find anything anywhere online taking notice of this before, but it's hardly the first time my google-fu has failed me on something. Does anyone know if Brandon has ever said anything as to whether this is a deliberate Stargate reference? Investigating this is actually what got me to sign up here. I suppose it could have been accidental, George R. R. Martin has admitted to one accidental homage in ASOIAF (Marillion was not named after the band Marillion, and GRRM said he'd never even heard of them when he wrote it), so Brandon doing it wouldn't be unprecedented.

Hi everyone. I've just come over here from Dragonmount. I'm about halfway through the first Mistborn book, which Brandon signed at Jordancon. I haven't read much of his solo work (so far it's just that and Elantris). But I'm enjoying what I'm reading a great deal.