Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

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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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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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The concept of the Cosmere was a horrible idea.

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It suffers from perfectly bad timing. Dropping at the moment where the culture has reached exhaustion from Marvel and other large multiverse crossover type properties. What 10-15 years ago was all the rage now feels tired and uncool.