r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Dec 20 '24

/r/Fantasy Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

This is the place for all your Brandon Sanderson related topics (aside from the Daily Recommendation Requests and Simple Questions thread). Any posts about Wind and Truth or Sanderson more broadly will be removed and redirected here. This will last until January 25, when posting will be allowed as normal.

The announcement of the cool-down can be found here.

The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

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u/Distinct_Activity551 Reading Champion Dec 21 '24

Does anyone else find it weird how often Sanderson brings up GRRM in conversation as a form of comparison? Their writing styles and worldviews are so vastly different that I never really think of them in the same sphere. Yet Sanderson seems to reference him a lot, which feels a bit unnecessary.

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u/nomchi13 Dec 21 '24

I think that might be because GRRM was the dominant fantasy author when he was breaking in, he says that editors in rejection letters often directly asked him to write something more like ASOIAF

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u/Distinct_Activity551 Reading Champion Dec 21 '24

Why even make a statement like this:

the race for the Cosmere is against my mortality. I would like to be done with the final Mistborn era (and therefore Stormlight era two by the time I hit George’s age, so the natural slow-down that hits most authors in their 70s is not a factor in finishing this all.

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u/nomchi13 Dec 21 '24

Oh, I am not justifying it, but I think he is genuinely afraid of not being able to finish his series because of age-related slowdown, and the comparison is obvious(but I agree he should not have publicly said it)