re: Brandon Sanderson's COSMERE

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So all of his books tie together in a way?

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Not all of his books. He has a number that take place outside of the Cosmere, not to mention his writing of the final three "Wheel of Time" books.

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The only Sanderson book I've read is Way of Kings

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This begs the question: why haven't you read "Words of Radiance" or any of his other books?

Finished "Arcanum Unbounded" last night. Many stories were a reread for me, but all the other tidbits concerning the planet systems were interesting. The final story, "Edgedancer," concerning Lift from "The Stormlight Archive" was well worth the read.

Looking forward to "Oathbringer" come November.

Edit to add: Curious to see what the Nightwatcher and her Old Magic is on the world of Roshar. Also...Roshar seems to be the home to quite a number of strange, sentient creatures.

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So I just started reading Sanderson. Blazed through Way of Kings and Words of Radiance. While I wait for oathbringer, what would be the recommended order of series to read. I know nothing other than this all seems to happen in the same solar system/universe.

My brother told me to go read Mistborn. Is that a good start?

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Well...the current "Stormlight" era is right in the middle of the chronology as we know it. How do you want to go from there?

The earliest so far in the chronology is his first published novel "Elantris." The original "Mistborn" is next I believe and a really good read. But considering you've read both "Stormlight" books, I might suggest reading "Warbreaker" next to learn more about two of the more obvious Worldhoppers that you've met so far.

All up to you, though. Just make sure you read the original Mistborn before you start Wax and Wayne's books.

It's not the same solar system, it's within the same small galaxy/universe.

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I wanted to add that most everything in his books are part of the story, especially with "Stormlight." With those books, most of the stuff on the back cover is "story" from an in universe character. The Ars Arcanum in each book is written by an in universe character, and the maps are drawn by an in universe character.

Just finished Oathbringer.

Things certainly escalated in that one! And it appears to have made Warbreaker an even more vital read to get the bigger picture.

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I get so nervous about starting something that's supposed to be 10 books like Stormlight. I loved Mistborn

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Well, technically...the whole Mistborn saga is going to end up being at least 13 books (trilogies cover four eras, with "Alloy of Law" acting as a one-shot/prequel to Era 2).

And with Stormlight, you have a front five and a back five.

But I definitely understand where you're coming from. It's a long haul and big undertaking.

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Well, technically...the whole Mistborn saga is going to end up being at least 13 books (trilogies cover four eras, with "Alloy of Law" acting as a one-shot/prequel to Era 2).

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Really? I forget how it ended but I remember thinking it was a fairly tied-up trilogy. Was that always the plan? Sometimes it feels like authors will milk a good thing endlessly, even if the quality of the story suffers.

From that standpoint I do give Sanderson credit that he's always planned the Stormligjt books to be that long.

I really enjoy Sanderson, and he puts a ton of work into the details of his universe. So much so that almost anything could be either a throw away line or the key to unraveling all of the mysteries in his universe.

I've enjoyed the Stormlight archive tremendously, the original Mistborn trilogy was great as well (even if it did suffer some in the later books), and his short stories from all over the Cosmere are great entertainment.

But the Wax and Wayne books, to me, are the absolute most fun to read. Anytime I think about picking up a Stormlight book I usually end up just re-reading my favorite parts instead, but I've listened to the Allow of Law books in their entirety several times. Just something about the mixture of genre's and settings (not to mention the action) is just so well done.

I got it from the library just so I could read Edgedancer before Oathbringer came out and that was the only story in it I read.

I really enjoyed it though and once I finish the books on my list and need a Sanderson fix I'll pick it back up and read the other stories in it

The only story that was exclusive to the collection was “Edgedancer.” Everything else had been previously published in one form or another.

All the blurbs and planetary maps for each star system were new as well.