New Wheel of Time Author Chosen - Brandon Sanderson
Monday, December 10th, 2007 - 4:22pm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/10/1752244
Anybody read any of Brandon Sanderson's stuff before? I will admit that I stopped reading the WoT series, but I am fascinated to see how the new authorship will affect all the shawl-readjustment and braid-tugging.
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I'm guessing he needs another ten 800-page volumes to flesh out the story before wrapping it up.
What is he writing? Pamphlets?
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This is good news.
I just finished book 9 and glad I will have some closure.
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If he can get us through the final volume(s) without all the 'Gee whiz girls are wierd' and 'Boys are stupid' from the main parties, he'll have a hearty pat on the back and a frosty jug of mead waiting for him when he passes through my village.
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Oh, wow, what a great choice. I just read Elantris a couple of months ago. I thought the plotting and pacing was a shade weak, but he draws characters with luminous intensity.
He should be perfect for the job. The plot's more or less done, but it needs someone who knows characters to guide them to it.
This series may turn out well after all.
I dunno. Closure that might not be the kind the author envisioned feels just as bad as no closure to me.
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From my understanding and from the interview with Brandon Sanderson at Dragonmount, it appears that RJ either completed, nearly completed or left EXTENSIVE notes about the ending of the series.
I'll likely read some of Sanderson's work before I put my confidence behind him, but from the interview, I'm excited to have him writing the final book.
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just out of curiosity, how'd he get the gig? I'm not an expert, so I've never heard of him. What other stuff has he done?
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What makes you think the author envisioned any sort of closure at all?
Sure he says in interviews he knew how it would end when he started writing, but there was little evidence he knew how to pace and organize that closure. For all the flaws, I got a heck of a lot of reading pleasure out of the series, I started over from scratch every time a new book came out and listened to the completed audio series at least 4 times. For all that, I'm not sure Jordan couldenvision closure.
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Naw, I was working a fairly repetitive job that allowed me to listen to audio while I worked, plus a 1 hour plus commute each way. Just having that much content that I didn't have to focus on (cause I already knew what happened) helped pass the time. I found that listening to stuff that was intellectually stimulating (i.e., Borges short stories) took too much concentration on every word, but nice escapist fantasy lit helped me get though the slog.
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I've read two of Sanderson's books: Mistborn and The Wells of Ascension. Mistborn was good-ish. I'd passed it by several times in the bookstore, but finally picked it up based on a recommendation on Patrick Rothfuss's blog.
The worldbuilding in the Final Empire series is quite good. It has an interesting history, and the environment and creatures are a bit outside the usual fantasy fare. The motivation is the typical "overthrow the tyrant", but the characters manage to maintain realistic motivations.
The writing is workman-like. It gets the job done. I can't decide if he does a good job of setting the mood, or if the worldbuilding was solid enough for it to come through regardless of the writers talent. Relationships are wooden, so don't expect any great romance.
Regardless, The Wells of Ascension wasn't as good as Mistborn.
Best thing he could do would be to plot the remaining volumes, limit himself to 250 pages for each and hire Cormac McCarthy to ruthlessly strip down his prose so it fits.
"And so came the final confrontation in dust and fire. He was prepared; evil wasn't. He supposed that was the stuff of happy endings but he couldn't recall any from before. This was new to him and it felt good.
It felt good.
He rolled his shoulders and scuffed the dust off his Tony Llamas and started the long walk home."
That Cormac, always with the cowboy boots...
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