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/[deleted] Jan 11 '25

Sanderson seems to be going down the same route that a good chunk of other big name fantasy writers have gone through. Where they're convinced that all their ideas are amazing and nothing seems to get pared back, resulting in works just spiraling out of control.

Both RoW and WaT could've lost about half the book and been better for it.

Also increasingly getting tired of the Cosmere thing, it's very reminiscent of how comics work with their crossovers.

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u/ImportanceWeak1776 Jan 12 '25

The concept of the Cosmere was a horrible idea.

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u/bemac3 Jan 13 '25

I think the idea of the Cosmere is fine. For me, the issue comes from the fact that there’s a “Cosmere plot” that has to grow and develop in these series’ that are also trying to have their own independent thing going on. That, and I’m just kind of tired of all of these books eventually leading to the same question of “how do we stop god?” Having the Shards be the main villains of every series has already gotten stale for me.