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But it's certainly an ambitious - even grandiose - idea and it will be fascinating to see it develop in the years to come. Hopefully, by 2035 or thereabouts (when no doubt ebooks will be inscribed directly into our brains with lasers or something), we can look back and see how successful Sanderson was in pulling off the project. This doesn't prevent the books being enjoyed individually but does reward readers who've been looking at things carefully. There are shades here of Stephen King's unified supernatural mythology: readers can read The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon with no real clue who Randall Flagg is, but then in The Dark Tower series more information is revealed about him and a grander masterplan can be discerned. So far the Cosmere has been something that close readers have picked up on, but casual readers are probably totally ignorant of it. There may be a further Elantris sequel, and Brandon has also suggested that there may be a book called Hoid which tells the story of the titular character in much clearer detail (though apparently the Dragonsteel sequence will reveal a lot more about the underlying mythology and unifying points of the various books and sub-settings). Combined with the six already published, that's 34 books with two left unaccounted so far (recalling that Alloy of Law and its forthcoming sequels are not part of the count, being new inventions). That accounts for 28 further books in the setting. Which assuming Brandon keeps up a book a year, means we'll hit that series somewhere around 2027! Stormlight #6-10 will follow, possibly with Warbreaker II and other books interspersed between them (presumably there will be no more Wax and Wayne books once Mistborn II has been released), then Mistborn III (the one set in space with magic-fuelled FTL travel). Then he will release the Mistborn II trilogy (the one set in a world with modern technology). He also hopes to release Elantris II in 2015, on the tenth anniversary of the publication of Elantris (his first novel). He will take breaks to release additional Mistborn side-novels featuring Wax and Wayne. Sanderson plans to write Stormlight #2 (current working title: The Book of Endless Pages) this year for release in mid-to-late 2013, and then the third through fifth books of the series.

The Dragonsteel series (seven volumes, first one is The Liar of Partinel).

Several further Mistborn side-novels featuring Wax and Wayne.

Sanderson plans to write the following books in the setting (and in some cases has already written very early drafts): Note that The Alloy of Law, which was written as an unplanned side-project, is part of the Cosmere universe (Hoid has a cameo in the book as a beggar at a wedding and also apparently writes the appendix, at one stage comparing the Mistborn world's magic with that of Sel, the Elantris planet) but is not part of the planned 36 volumes in the series (nor are its planned sequels).

The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings (2010).

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Ultimately, it is clear that the ten-volume Stormlight Archive series will expand on the Cosmere and the linked setting of Sanderson's fiction.Īt the moment these works exist in the Cosmere setting: Hoid sends a letter to the organisation that sent them (an organisation called the ' Seventeenth Shard') expressing irritation with this move, a letter that appears throughout the second part of the novel. We also meet three other people who can travel between the worlds, two of whom we've met before (one in Elantris and one in Mistborn), who are apparently trying to track Hoid down. In The Way of Kings this background suddenly became more important to the plot: Hoid (aka 'Wit') now has a brief POV section and plays a larger role in events. Most notably, a character called Hoid plays a minor, background role in all five books, apparently observing events with interest. In his first five novels - Elantris, Warbreaker and the Mistborn trilogy - this took the form of a couple of easter eggs. It's been an open secret for a while that Sanderson's fantasy novels share a common background setting and mythology, the 'Cosmere'. And 'series' is probably the wrong word, a more accurate term would be 'setting'. The good news is that, if you've read all of his adult solo fantasy novels to date, you're already six books into it. Going through some old interviews, I was surprised to read that Brandon Sanderson is planning a 36-volume fantasy series.

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