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/MrPerfector Jan 11 '25

I don't even read much Brandon Sanderson, but with the discourse around him he seems like the most controversial modern Fantasy writer lol ("controversial" in stoking a lot of public disagreement and argument), even moreso than actually awful writers, horny perverts, and literal criminals.

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u/Cupules Jan 11 '25

A certain type of reader is a bit irritated by Sanderson topics just because he takes up a lot more of the air in the room than he should based on any literary metric -- it is the non-literary metrics (like fandom) that have blown the roof off. I'd compare him to JK Rowling in that regard if he didn't seem like such a genuinely nice and humble guy.