“It’s one of the big touchstone moments from when I built the outline all those years ago. Writing the climactic sequence of Rhythm of War was the culmination of decades of planning and hoping. Yet, for Sanderson, the joy is still in the work-an innate gratitude formed in equal parts from his Mormon faith and his slow start in the publishing world. His books have been published in 35 languages and counting. He has since hit the New York Times bestseller list 15 times, and DMG Entertainment has optioned the rights to the entire Cosmere universe featured in his fantasy novels. Over the next few years, Tor published the highly lauded Mistborn trilogy and The Way of Kings, which would launch Sanderson’s ship in earnest. He was rewarded in 2003, when Moshe Feder, an editor at Tor, acquired his novel Elantris 18 months after it was first submitted. Despite a mounting stack of rejection letters (mostly telling him to be grittier, he says, “like George R.R. He took a job as a night clerk at a hotel because he could write while on shift. We’re delving into the motivations behind executing a person they’d signed a treaty with that very night.”īefore becoming the Brandon Sanderson most of the fantasy world knows today, the prolific author wrote 13 manuscripts without selling a single book. Rhythm of War focuses on the two sisters, Eshonai and Venli, who ordered the hit. “There are five characters who are deeply affected by this king’s assassination: his brother, who has to decide whether to take the throne a young man who’s conscripted to go and exact revenge the assassins themselves. It stamps each book with an identity,” he explains.
#ALL OF BRANDON SANDERSON BOOKS FULL#
“Each book is like a trilogy in the way it’s structured, and focuses deeply on one character, with a full flashback sequence of that character’s past running parallel to the main narrative.
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There's a list on Wikipedia but I have no idea how complete it is.The series will, when complete, span 10 entries, split into two five-book arcs. There's a lot of short stories published in anthologies that don't really have their own series name or title, and wouldn't really have tags to begin with. Sixth of the Dusk (set on First of the Sun)Īny other work by Sanderson would be considered a non-Cosmere work.Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (set on Threnody)."Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania".It should be pretty easy to decide if a novel is Cosmere or not based on this.Īt this point, these works are part of the Cosmere everything else published as of December 2016 is not a Cosmere work: However, the more recent works set in the Cosmere have been more clearly part of a shared universe, with crossover characters (like Hoid) and concepts (like Shards and Adonalsium itself, how magic works in general). The Cosmere series is on-going, so the works that are part of it will grow. But you don't need to worry about meta and tagging to answer this. The motivation for this question is this meta post - before starting to retag, I want to be sure which brandon-sanderson questions are actually cosmere questions. I'm looking for an exhaustive list of Sanderson's works, clearly split into Cosmere and non-Cosmere books/series. Sanderson's own website, as well as this SFF.SE question, both mention various books which are part of the Cosmere, but they don't state whether this is all the Cosmere books published so far, nor do they give proper lists of non-Cosmere Sanderson books.
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It's certainly not all of them, but I'm not sure exactly which ones are the exceptions. In the end, the Cosmere Cycle will include between 32-36 books.īut Wikipedia doesn't specify precisely which of Sanderson's books are part of the Cosmere. Because of that, he hides connections to his other works within each book, creating this "hidden epic".
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This idea came from his desire to create an epic length series without requiring readers to buy a ridiculous number of books. The Cosmere is the name of the universe in which many of Sanderson's books exist.