Hardcover, 671 pages
English language
Published Feb. 26, 2016 by Tor.
"An all-new 40,000-word Stormlight Archive novella, "Edgedancer," will be the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first book of short fiction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The collection will include nine works in all. The first eight are: "The Hope of Elantris" (Elantris) "The Eleventh Metal" (Mistborn) "The Emperor's Soul" (Elantris) "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 through 30" (Mistborn) "White Sand" (excerpt; Taldain) "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" (Threnody) "Sixth of Dusk" (First of the Sun) "Mistborn: Secret History" (Mistborn) These wonderful works, originally published on Tor.com and elsewhere individually, convey the expanse of the Cosmere and tell exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, including the Hugo Award-winning novella, "The Emperor's Soul" and an excerpt from the graphic novel "White Sand." Arcanum Unbounded will also contain the Stormlight Archive novella "Edgedancer," which …
"An all-new 40,000-word Stormlight Archive novella, "Edgedancer," will be the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first book of short fiction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The collection will include nine works in all. The first eight are: "The Hope of Elantris" (Elantris) "The Eleventh Metal" (Mistborn) "The Emperor's Soul" (Elantris) "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 through 30" (Mistborn) "White Sand" (excerpt; Taldain) "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" (Threnody) "Sixth of Dusk" (First of the Sun) "Mistborn: Secret History" (Mistborn) These wonderful works, originally published on Tor.com and elsewhere individually, convey the expanse of the Cosmere and tell exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, including the Hugo Award-winning novella, "The Emperor's Soul" and an excerpt from the graphic novel "White Sand." Arcanum Unbounded will also contain the Stormlight Archive novella "Edgedancer," which will appear in this book for the first time anywhere. Finally, this collection includes essays and illustrations for the various planetary systems in which the stories are set"--
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A compendium of extremely long short stories and novellas, with some extra scene setting and author commentary sprinkled throughout. If you're on the Cosmere train this helps fill in some gaps and provides a sneak peak at new worlds, otherwise it's a solid collection but I'm not sure who else would go out of their way to read this.
I really enjoyed this collection of short stories and novellas spread across Sanderson's various series.
The big draw for me though were the Mistborn Secret Histories Novella which explains some parallel events to the Mistborn trilogy and the novella Edgedancer which follows a character introduced in Words of Radiance.
So being a Sanderson fan I had already read everything that had previously been published from the book. What was new to me of course was Edgedancer and all the meta universe information. I had previously not followed the details on Cosmere so much and enjoyed those little paragraphs about each different world very much.
Edgedancer is beautiful and I loved the way Lift and her "Voidbringer" zipped around the city. Her power is so different from what Kaladin, Shallan and Jasnah do, it was definitely one of my favorites in the Interludes to get a whole novella featuring her is just icing on the cake.
I love that this book collects all the shorter works in one place, so the stories don't get lost in the out-of-print void that so much short-fiction vanishes into after a while (although with ebooks this is less of an issue of course)
I'd already read the majority of these, but reading the introduction to each world and Brandon's postcripts was a nice addition. A wonderful collection that helps answer some of the cosmere questions I have.
DVD extras: Cosmere Edition
My fascination with the Cosmere started with Mistborn but expanded quickly. This collection has a couple stories I had read previously, and several more that I hadn't. As a fan it's good to learn more about worlds and characters I've already grown to love, and find new loves along the way.
It took me a while to work through this book. I've rarely read novelette compilations before and I found it difficult to just want to read end-to-end. After each minisode I had to think about it. Take a night or two off and enjoy the flavor as it were.
I saw this book in the store and thought about picking it up in print--I think I will have to eventually as the comic within is impossible to read in epub format but I read at night, and in a bed with a dear lady who likes the lights off so by the glow of my iphone+ I slipped into the many skins that were offered here.
Finally, the curtain was pulled back. Hints laid open, suppositions made real. Gobblegobblegobble. A multiverse based off of some large deity's power broken? Gobblegobblegobble.. Planets that both have new forms of deities, have manifestations …
It took me a while to work through this book. I've rarely read novelette compilations before and I found it difficult to just want to read end-to-end. After each minisode I had to think about it. Take a night or two off and enjoy the flavor as it were.
I saw this book in the store and thought about picking it up in print--I think I will have to eventually as the comic within is impossible to read in epub format but I read at night, and in a bed with a dear lady who likes the lights off so by the glow of my iphone+ I slipped into the many skins that were offered here.
Finally, the curtain was pulled back. Hints laid open, suppositions made real. Gobblegobblegobble. A multiverse based off of some large deity's power broken? Gobblegobblegobble.. Planets that both have new forms of deities, have manifestations of deification? Gobblegobblegobble!
I thought about reviewing each section but I can't. If you have read Sanderson's work you have an expectation of what, how, and just about why he writes and this book personifies much of those knowns. The stories are great to read and the behind-the-scenes to each book telling why he did what he did is such a win for the reader/audience.
Always amazed at what he has crafted. Deeply addicted to what the Cosmere is summing up to be. I think he will be next to my collection of Moorcock and the diaspora of Elric/The Eternal Champion. My only wish is that he had clones which could write all his stories faster. Hah!
If you have finished his current titles and are ready to see something substantial about the universe the Cosmere inhabits read on!
Solo puedo decir de Sanderson que en relatos cortos es cuando se luce aún más.
Aquí hay reunidos relatos de cada sistema de su Cosmere, y ninguno desmerece el conjunto, aunque Edgedancer desde luego es el que despunta en calidad (y duración, por supuesto.)
Me ha dejado con ganas de releer toda la segunda era de Mistborn solo por intentar leer los capitulos del periódico que pone de vez en cuando.
Edgedancer and Emperor's Soul were really excellent. The White Sand excerpt was okay, I don't think the format is necessarily for me. Hope of Elantris was a quickie, but having not read Elantris yet I didn't get much out of it.
All of the Ars Arcanum notes were great / revelatory. Shadows for Silence and Sixth of the Dusk were also both solid.
I was mixed on the Mistborn stories. Eleventh Metal was okay, Allomancer Jack was skippable. Secret History was fun for the cosmere implications, but a little meh as a story on its own.
