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There's a forum for 'em to introduce themselves: Introduce Yourself That's that place where people usually like to introduce themselves at It's right at the top of the list of forums. I suppose you might go here if you're just here for Dan Wells though, but still, the post is more likely to get seen there. So, you might want to go and introduce yourself there. Anyway, what books have you read.

It would have been an extra bonus if they were iron boots. I never realized link was a Feruchemist.

You can email him it at his contact page http://brandonsanderson.com/contact/

Alright, you've convinced me. It's been a while since I've read Warbreaker. I remembered really liking the title, because of that element, but I couldn't remember the exact reasoning. I move it up to #4 and everything else slides down to accommodate it except Sixth of the Dusk since it kind of has to stay in that position. My new order: AoL, SfSitFoH, WoA, WB, TES, SotD, ToM.

Ha, Inheritance I just bought the first Shannara book, but I haven't read it yet.

Alright, I was wondering which of Sanderson's titles for his stories were people's favorites. Also, just favorite fantasy book titles in general. Here's my top seven: 1. The Alloy of Law 2. The Well of Ascension 3. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell 4. The Emperor's Soul 5. Towers of Midnight 6. Sixth of the Dusk 7. Warbreaker I really like 1-3 on that list a lot. I also really like The Stormlight Archive as a series title. I wasn't counting unreleased books in the same category, because part of the quality of the title is how it relates to the actual book. But I like Stones Unhallowed freaking tons, if he changes that just because of Doors of Stone (which is also a pretty good title) I'm going to be upset. Especially if he changes it to Skybreaker, which is a pretty meh title. I also really like Shadows of Self. Titles I like from elsewhere, Wise Man's Fear, The Sum of All Men, by David Farland (though it's mostly referred to as Runelords as it's the first in the series of the same name, that annoys me). Titles from books I haven't read that I really like: A Storm of Swords, there was something else, but I can't remember it. There's also chapter titles too. I can't remember a lot of them, there's a few of the top of my head, but I'm also looking at a list. With chapters it's harder to seperate the actual title from the chapter, so I'm not putting in things like That Which We Cannot Have and the Hoid epilogues which I was really tempted to put in. These ones aren't in order. WoK: Honor is Dead That Storming Book (just because it's funny) Eyes of Red and Blue (I really like the story here, but it's basically just an explanation for the saying which I like, so it still counts) Eshonai (just because I never noticed this before and setting up for the next books) WoR (I only read this once. I wasn't really paying attention to chapter titles, so these will be more arbitrary): Knives in the Back - Soldiers on the Field Red Carpet, Once White The Coldness of Clarity Heterochromatic Whitespine Uncaged A Thousand Scurrying Creatures Swallowed by the Sky

1. Stormlight Archive 2. Mistborn 3. The Wheel of Time 4. Discworld 5. Lord of the Rings Kingkiller Chronicles loses to LotR so Prince of Ravens doesn't kill me and because of Ferulian. I haven't read very many Discworld yet, so it could go higher since there's so many. Lightbringer could be a candidate, but I've only read the first one.

You were getting your boots signed, or was that a typo for books? Really cool either way.

Okay, so I recently read Mistborn 1 and 2 for the second time. Here's what struck me in The Final Empire particularly, Marsh. Before, when he was a member of Kelsier's crew he was nicknamed Ironeyes. I was struck by how they focused on how it was that way because of his penetrating gaze. This turned prophetic when his gaze was penetrated and his eyes were replaced with iron. One of the characters, Sazed maybe, notes about how his nickname was prophetic. They note his gaze just a bit too much, and it seems just a bit too much of a coincidence. So what I propose, is that there's more going on with him than we know about. Now, Marsh is a crazy important character to Mistborn, but we don't see him very much. First off he's Kelsier's brother which automatically puts him in a place of importance. Now to the events individual books. tFE: He's presumed dead for a lot of the book, then he comes back having figured out to kill Inquisitors and basically gives Vin the opportunity to fight the Lord Ruler. tWoA: He is the reason Sazed finds the central record to the whole book, then he disappears, only to fight Sazed at the end. tHoA: I remember the least since I haven't reread this one. We see more of him here, he gets some viewpoint. He's controlled by Ruin, but manages to pull off Vin's spike, he kills Elend, which also happens to give Vin motivation to defeat Ruin. AoL: The fact that he survives this long is significant on his own. He uses atium compounding which lets him live a long time. He serves as a kind of grim reaper figure in society. He gives Wax a book indirectly which may be really important later on. But, back to the original point prophetic names. It just seems too much of a coincidence. And the way his name and gaze were described suggested something already may have not been natural then. And a character in a position like Marsh, being important to the overall arc, but not appearing too much, is in the perfect position to be caught up in some Cosmere shenanigans or experiencing cosmere effects we don't know about yet. Which brings me to an aside, maybe there's something going on with spiritual realmatics or shardic something that results in things like prophetic names/titles. There are some other interesting uses of names throughout the cosmere. First people called Jezrien, with reasons such as his bearing and temper and mercy stuff, somewhat similar to reasoning for Marsh's name. Then, thousands of years later there's an actually being in the storms called Stormfather. Now, this stormfather is related to Tanavast, not Jezrien, but still, someone's called stormfather then later there's a stormfather in a more literal sense. Next is Kaladin Stormblessed. Seems a bit too apt of a name for random soldiers to coincidentally come up with. He's in a literal sense blessed by the storm. In Arelon, people are named after Aons, which reflects there personality, and Aons are way tied up with the magic. Similarly on Roshar, you have the whole palindromy and things like Shallan being named after Shalash. Then there's the whole Returned names, Warbreaker and such. And names and pseudonames are focused on in the cosmere, with Hoid's many names and Zahel and pseudonyms by other worldhoppers. Obviously Brandon just likes playing with names and titles. But I think you find things like that he wants to mess with he will integrate into the magic system. Really there's just two ideas in this theory. Maybe something more is going on with Marsh. And maybe something more is going on with names.

Alcatraz is categorized as middle grade, which is the age group before YA. They're humor adventure and pretty hilarious. He has two YA books, The Rithmatist which has to do with chalk magic, and Steelheart which has to do with a world of supervillians. Also his novella Legion and his book Steelheart are getting sequels in the coming months if you want to be able to read a sequel right as it comes out. There's still plenty of time though, you could read other books before those and still be ready for the sequels. They're both pretty quick reads, Legion you could read in an hour or two, Steelheart you could read in a day or two. Legion sequel is scheduled for late November, Steelheart for early January. Alcatraz's fifth and final book is also coming soon. It's complicated, I think he's already written it, but he's waiting on publishing shenanigans. Probably sometime next year. He also has some isolated cosmere novellas -- I'm just guessing, you know about the Cosmere -- but they're in anthologies so you'd have to get the whole thing just for one novella. There's also infinity blade novellas. Basically you could just read anything by him since all his books are great.

After a lot of searching, I found the ultimate anagram. All the secrets were hidden in this one message. Brandon Sanderson Has Lied On About Adonalsium: TenSoon, Abandon Rand. Bela is Odium On A Salad Rush

Baxil's Mistress is most likely Shalash. This has spoilers for WoR and especially Warbreaker

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Those poor fox husks, they've already had so much taken from them. Here are some non-cosmere ones: Steelheart Steelheart: Let's Reheat Her Seattle Rithmatics: I Chart Mist Smedry Talent: Elend Start My; Malted Sentry Centrifugal: Lift Gnu Care The Phone Comapny: Then Mop Each Pony Sennion: Neon Sin Stephen Leeds: Nestled Sheep Worker of Secrets: Wok's Terror Feces I Hate Dragons: Drainage Host; Reading Oaths; Handier Goats; Head Organist Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine: Slithering Sea Cad Opening A Thorium Iron Greenness; A Mightier Open Engineer Hag Nostril Snores Sun Acid

After I heard about the whole Hoid thing with Balderdash being an anagram for sharblade I decided to look for other cosmere anagrams. Shardblade is also an anagram for Bad Heralds and Drab Lashed. Adonalsium: Nasal Odium Stormfather: Shatter Form; Hamster Fort; Farthermost Investiture: It is Venture; Vin I Set True Lestibournes: Brute's Insole Scadrial: Radicals First of the Sun: Fortune Shifts Nalthis: Lash Tin The Way of Kings: Why Fake Ingots? Words of Radiance: Once Afraid Sword; Sword Coined Afar; Crawdad's Iron Foe; Sin, A Cad Foreward Stones Unhallowed: A Shelled Snout Now; A Ten Loudness Howl Lerasium: Liar Muse What else is hidden in the anagrams?

So, Spike is best pony?

This needs more attention, or it might not get funded. I wonder if Brandon would tweet about it.

Minor spoilers about the top discussed.

Hello, I've been a lurker here for a little bit. The only Sanderson stories I haven't read are Sixth of the Dusk, Dreamer, Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine, River of Souls, I Hate Dragons, and the eleventh metal. Of those, HARRE is on my shelf and Sixth of the Dusk is in the mail. I'm a huge sanderfan, been a lurker for a bit. Of all his stories the only one that isn't all that great is Centrifugal. My top ten writers are: 1. Brandon Sanderson 2. Orson Scott Card 3. Terry Pratchett 4. Robert Jordan 5. Dan Wells 6. Patrick Rothfuss 7. Larry Correia 8. Howard Tayler 9. Isaac Asimov 10. Brent Weeks

Even more confirmation about the release date, Dan Wells just said on Do I Dare to Eat a Peach that Writing Excuses has a surprise planned for next week. Also explains why none of them have talked about it yet

So, Dan Wells just announced the other day that a new John Wayne Cleaver novella is coming out next week on the fourth of July. It's entitled Next of Kin and will be written from the perspective of one of the demons. It is designed to lead in to the sequel trilogy which is going to come out next year. The first book will be called The Devil's Only Friend. You can read about it on his blog.

I heard that on Dan's blog, he says they're going to make it..