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From the fantasy epics of the Cosmere to the defunct mobile game companion books, Graham, Jack, and Taylor attempt to read every published work by Brandon Sanderson, in publication order. We hope to gain a better understanding of who he is as an author, how his writing changes over time, and his broader effect on the fantasy genre. Starting with Elantris and finishing half a decade from now, please join us as we travel out of the wardrobe, and onto the wagon train.
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Infinity Blade: Awakening & I Hate Dragons - Episode 14 1:55:54

πριν 14 μέρες1:55:54

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We read two not very good stories and have 2 fantastic conversations about them with special guest Sophie Abromowitz! Sophie Short Story: https://joylandpublishing.com/fiction/jan-is-important/ Sophie Substack: https://abromowitz.substack.com/ Sophie Website: https://sophie-abromowitz.com/ Next month we'll be reading Alloy of Law. Episode airs, end of April. Content warnings for this episode: auditory hallucinations, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, child endangerment, conspiracies, death, duels, gender dysphoria, god kings, human sacrifice, mprisonment, insanity, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, undeath, wounds, xenophobia Infinity Blade Screenshots https://www.epicgames.com/infinityblade/en-US/game-info/infinity-blade-i Infinity Blade II Screenshots: https://kotaku.com/games/infinity-blade-ii/gallery Infinity Blade II Opening Cutscene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSywlxTpqBA Books Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Piranesi Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Movies Inception dir by Christopher Nolan Paprika dir by Satoshi Kon TV Star Wars Andor Other Boss Baby Tweet https://x.com/afraidofwasps/status/1177301482464526337?lang=en This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens - Episode 13 1:25:16

πριν 6 weeks1:25:16

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We're back in the era of normal length books with Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens! Next month we'll be reading Infinity Blade Awakening & I Hate Dragons. Episode airs, March 25th. Around 59 Minutes in, we ask if ADX actually does the math correctly, she does not. References A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett Percy Jackson and The Olympians by Rick Riordan The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, censorship, child abuse, child endangerment, classism, colonialism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fame, fatphobia, foster homes, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, J.K. Rowling, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, settler colonialism, stabbing, transphobia, undeath, wounds This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Towers of Midnight - Episode 12 1:47:15

πριν 10 weeks1:47:15

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We read Towers of Midnight, Book 13 of The Wheel of Time. Next month we'll be reading all of Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens, Episode Airs: Feb 18th. Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, amputation, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones , classism, colonization, death, domestic violence, fetishization, gaslighting, gender roles, hallucinations, insanity, J.K. Rowling, kink, knives, maiming, misogyny, murder, mutilation, rape, real world violence, religious extremism, self harm, sexual content, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, trauma, undeath, Vietnam War, wounds and infection Jordan Quote About Language: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/1mv9wv/language_in_the_world_of_wot/ Interviews Jack Cited https://aidanmoher.com/blog/2010/11/interviews/interview-brandon-sanderson-author-of-towers-of-midnight-and-the-way-of-kings/ https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=547 Jack's Rankings The Way of Kings Warbreaker Mistborn Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones The Hero of Ages Elantris Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia (Book 3) The Well of Ascension This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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The Way of Kings - Episode 11 - Part 2 2:07:51

πριν 13 weeks2:07:51

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On this part two we finish The Way of Kings, making this comfortably our longest episode yet. Apologies for getting this out a day later than I said I would, the flu took me out. New Discord! Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, exsanguination, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, knives, maiming, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sex work, slavery, slave races, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, surgery, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection Works Mentioned A Wizard of Earthsea The Grace of Kings Don Quixote Exhalation Stories of Your Life Arrival Le Mort de Arthur David Graeber The Dawn of Everything This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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The Way of Kings - Episode 11 - Part 1 3:11:45

πριν 15 weeks3:11:45

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On this episode we read The Way of Kings, a book so massive we really only talk about the plot of the book in the last third of the episode. We split this episode in half because of how big this book is. It's slow, methodical, and we talked about it for 8 and a half hours. Happy New Year folks, I wish you a wonderful and safe start to 2025. Next Month: We read the entirety of Towers of Midnight, Episode Airs: January 28th. Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, exsanguination, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, knives, maiming, marital rape, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sex work, slavery, slave races, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, surgery, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection Correction: Graham does not have the most liked 1 star review of Tress of the Emerald Sea anymore, there are several other reviews that have dethroned them. Correction: about 34 minutes in, Graham says 4,000 years but means 1,000. Correction 1:36:50 It is the Stormfather speaking to Kaladin who says this, not a Dalinar vision. The Mormon Church’s tax exempt status in 1978 came under threat because of their views on race and excluding black men from the priesthood. The president of the church received a divine revelation. MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING FOR BOOKS 1-4 OF THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE: The Most Mormon Magic System: How Brandon Sanderson Turned Agency into Fantasy by Liz Busby Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie E nder's Game by Orson Scott Card - Normally we'd link this on our bookshop, but it second hand or get it from the library. This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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The Gathering Storm - Episode 10 2:54:47

πριν 20 weeks2:54:47

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We read the The Gathering Storm, Book 12 of The Wheel of Time. This was a lot, and we apologize for the delay. Happy Thanksgiving folks. Next month we'll be reading all of The Way of Kings, Episode Airs: December 24th, Christmas Eve. Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, amputation, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bone, classism, colonization, death, domestic violence, fetishization, gaslighting, gender roles, hallucinations, insanity, J.K. Rowling, kink, knives, maiming, misogyny, murder, mutilation, rape, real world violence, religious extremism, self harm, sexual content, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, trauma, undeath, Vietnam War, wounds and infection Correction: Robert Jordan’s Assistants were Alan Romanczuk and Maria Simons Correction: Jordan’s Claim that he wouldn’t let anyone else finish the series, I say weeks in the episode but it is much more likely that Jordan changed his mind during the last year of his life, so months before his death not weeks. However, Sanderson makes this weeks claim here and is obviously much more qualified than I am. Michael Livingston Origins of the Wheel of Time The Gunslinger by Stephen King Real-world references Wheel of Time Ask Ann Landers Women Want Me Fish Fear Me Moraine: The Aiel as Cheyenne Dune Frank Herbert & David Lynch’s Dune The Boundless Light of Islam Tweet The Fifth Season NK Jemisin 51 Books You Could Read Instead of The Wheel of Time The Once and Future King by T.H. White Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory (the translation by Simon Armitage is very good) Mercedes Lackey Ursula LeGuin Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa Dragonball by Akira Toriyama The Power by Naomi Alderman Generic Entertainment Wheel of Time The Green Bone Saga Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent The Expanse by James SA Corey Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Naomi Novik This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Alcatraz vs The Knights of Crystallia - Episode 9 1:58:43

πριν 26 weeks1:58:43

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We read the interesting yet undersauced Alcatraz vs The Knights of Crystallia! Next month we'll be reading The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. Episode airs, November 12th. James Acaster's Repertoire is available from Netflix. References Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, addiction, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, censorship, child abuse, child endangerment, classism, colonialism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fame, fatphobia, foster homes, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, J.K. Rowling, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, racism, royalty, self harm, self hatred, settler colonialism, stabbing, suicide/suicidal ideation, transphobia, trials, undeath, wounds Sorry for the late upload y'all, I ended up doing the last third of this episode behind the bar at work. This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Warbreaker Bonus Material - Episode 8.5 36:29

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We discuss the broader Cosmere, as well as some of the finer points of the ending of Warbreaker. Come back next week for Alcatraz vs The Knights of Crystalia. This conversation is less professional, we can only hope it's entertaining. Content warnings for this episode: colonization, death, discussion of sexuality, settler colonialism This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Warbreaker - Episode 8 2:49:58

πριν 30 weeks2:49:58

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We read the bright, colorful, and most importantly - good Warbreaker in its entirety. Next month we'll be reading all of Alcatraz vs The Knights of Crystallia, Episode Airs: October 15th https://x.com/headfallsoff/status/1051484419251425280 Message I sent to Jack during the pod, potential spoilers for Word of Brandon and Stormlight. https://imgur.com/HeaTJ6v.jpg I highly recommend this Library of Congress National Book Fair Talk with James SA Corey https://youtu.be/OWSo3qSKAuM?si=aKm4yKIRcgabOsO4 All those lectures and talks were quite good, if one sticks out to you give it a listen. There was an audio issue in the original version of this episode that has since been remedied, shout out to our listeners who got back to us so quickly. Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, child abuse, child death, child sacrifice (non lethal), classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of rape, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, enemies to lovers, fatphobia, fridging, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, J.K. Rowling, knives, maiming, marital rape, mind control, misogyny, murder, mutation, mutilation, non-traditional use of the word "rape", puppets, racism, rape, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sexual assault, sexual violence, skeletons, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Defending Elysium & Firstborn - Episode 7 1:21:44

πριν 35 weeks1:21:44

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Join us for our shortest episode yet! We delve into Sanderson's first works of science fiction, two interesting short stories about space and failure. Next month we'll be reading all of Warbreaker. Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, blindness, broken bones, bullying, child abuse, classism, conspiracies, cults, death, empire, existentialism, failure, fascism, gifted kid syndrome, gulags, homophobia, human sacrifice, human supremacy, imprisonment, insanity, imperialism, JK Rowling, maiming, mental illness, mind control, murder, Nazi Germany, Orson Scott Card, prisons, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, suicide/suicidal ideation, torture, transphobia, wounds and infection Defending Elysium: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/defending-elysium/ Firstborn: https://reactormag.com/firstborn/ Opening Scene to Cowboy Bebop: https://youtu.be/Z-4ImAf6qYk I totally blanked and missed the opportunity to talk about Jet as a disabled character in the episode, but alas, we record these in the morning and sometimes the brain misses the connection. Darko Suvin's Estrangement and Cognition: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/estrangement-and-cognition/ - I did an embarassingly bad job talking about one of the foundational texts of science fiction studies. If it's relevant again I'll do a better job talking about it, but for now I highly recommend reading it only to better understand some of the reasons a text feels like "science fiction". If you're intersted in Star Wars or Grand Admiral Thrawn, I highly recommend A More Civilized Age, where Waypoint Radio Veterans Ali, Austin, Natalie, and Rob are going through Star Wars Rebels where he makes an appearance. This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Alcatraz vs The Scrivener's Bones - Episode 6 2:33:45

πριν 40 weeks2:33:45

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We're confronted with our first sleeper hit, Alcatraz vs The Scrivener's Bones! Next month we'll be reading the short stories Defending Elysium (2008) and Firstborn (2008), Episode Airs: August 13th Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, broken bones, bullying, child abuse, child death, child endangerment, classism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fighter jets, foster homes, gulags, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, maiming, mental illness, mind control, murder, prisons, religious extremism, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, suicide/suicidal ideation, time loops, torture, transphobia, undeath, US Military, wounds and infection So in the episode I mentioned that I would put a primer to disability studies in the show notes. I'd recommend starting with Beginning with Disability by Lennard Davis, and then if you're interested in the politics of care I can recommend Sunaura Taylor's Beasts of Burden and if you like disability as a product of environment, try Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures. There's a million more places you can go from those three books, so enjoy and happy reading. Castleman, M. D. (2011). Alcatraz and Iser: Applying Wolfgang Iser’s concepts of implied reader and implied author and reality to the metafictive Alcatraz Smedry series. Children's Literature in Education, 42, 19-32. Sorry for the late upload y'all, lost a bunch of editing in the export last night so I redid some work. This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Comedy Central Presents: The Roast of Elend Venture - Hero of Ages Bonus Content 1:03:37

πριν 44 weeks1:03:37

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Spoilers for Hero of Ages (the book and our episode) This conversation is much less professional, we can only hope it's entertaining. Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, child death, classism, death, decapitation, discussion of rape, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, enemies to lovers, eugenic breeding, eugenics, fatphobia, gaslighting, genocide, hallucinations, human sacrifice, insanity, J.K. Rowling, maiming, mind control, misogyny, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape, references to Nazis, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, sexual assault, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, sterilization, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, undeath, wounds and infection This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Mistborn: The Hero of Ages - Episode 5 2:45:21

πριν 44 weeks2:45:21

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We rage and cry over The Hero of Ages, a book that is surprisingly hard to talk about because it's doing so much at once. Next month we'll be reading all of Alcatraz vs The Scrivener's Bones, Episode Airs: July 9th Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, child death, classism, death, decapitation, discussion of rape, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, enemies to lovers, eugenic breeding, eugenics, fatphobia, gaslighting, genocide, hallucinations, human sacrifice, insanity, J.K. Rowling, maiming, mind control, misogyny, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape, references to Nazis, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, sexual assault, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, sterilization, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, undeath, wounds and infection Meme from the episode: https://imgur.com/TSHo1tS.jpg This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians - Episode 4 1:59:56

πριν 48 weeks1:59:56

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We read the middle grade heist fantasy card battler Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians and talk about it for our shortest episode yet! Next month we'll be reading all of Mistborn: The Hero of Ages, Episode Airs: June 11th Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, broken bones, bullying, child abuse, child death, child endangerment, classism, conspiracies, death, foster homes, Elon Musk, gulags, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, maiming, mental illness, mind control, murder, prisons, religious extremism, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, suicide/suicidal ideation, torture, transphobia, wounds and infection Correction: After the break I make a claim that the Bastille wasn't a prison for very long, I am very wrong! I am confusing it with a completely different French fortress which is embarrassing. The Bastille was made into a prison specifically for political prisoners and anyone the state deemed to be imprisoned, which is part of the reason it was stormed and was such a symbol during the revolution. I should know this better. The People's Joker Showtimes: https://www.alteredinnocence.net/thepeoplesjoker Really go see this one, it's all time banger of a film. This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)…

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Mistborn: The Well of Ascension - Episode 3 3:35:48

πριν 52 weeks3:35:48