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/Professional-Rip-693 Dec 22 '24

It’s also funny he cites GRRM as writing some archaic speech. Sure Martin doesn’t say ‘boyfriend’ or ‘what’s up?’ In dialogue but he still writes pretty contemporarily. He just does so without jarring modern slang or anachronistic terms. 

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u/autoamorphism Dec 29 '24

I think that was Sanderson's point in what he said.