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From one of my favorite books on writing:

"Isaac Asimov, author/editor of seven hundred-plus books, was once asked what he would do if he knew he had only six months left to live.

"'Type faster,' he said."

Unlike what other people are saying, it does indeed seem to be Warbreaker. Going by wikipedia Sturmklänge is the German title for Warbreaker (though this new cover seems to split the word up). You can also see an old version of it for sale on Amazon.

So there are only two distinct versions, the original, and the 10th anniversary version. The 10th anniversary version is considered the "canon" version, and includes some commentary and deleted scenes following the conclusion of the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Elantris-Tenth-Anniversary-Authors-Definitive-ebook/dp/B003G93YLY

If you're in the UK, things might be slightly different. Sanderson said every version of the book would be updated, so unless you bought Elantris used, you probably have the most recent version of the text.

Yes. Stephen King is known as an exception and not the rule. He even mentioned it in On Writing, iirc. But most authors that write about writing tend to agree that you should know you're ending before you start, but you're ending can always evolve. I think that's about what you said as well. I think one joke was that King didn't know his ending, but the alcohol and cocaine do. Edited for Swype errors.

This is so cool! Was just thinking if you don’t want the ring box moving around it might be nice to add in some dark foam to secure the box (I.e cut out a ring box hole in this: Feldherr FS100R-Bundle 100 mm (4 Inch) Customizable Pick Pluck Foam for All Kind of Using with Separate Bottom https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06W5BM2FN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_32MCRNCR0409CAPWMPYS)

Congrats on the upcoming engagement and all the fun that brings!

There's a host of book holders that can work. Here's one option that seems very flexible.

Failing that, I know you mentioned "don't say an e-reader", and I saw you mentioning your SO's finnicky nature...but at some point, the best option has to be considered...

Secret History is important for mechanics reasons that are not easy to explain. SH basically explains/goes through/touches on: Cognitive Shadows, Ascension, the Cosmere backstory, Connection, a little about Identity, the three Realms, the nature of Shards and Investiture. It’s the Cosmere lore and mechanics handbook.

Of much lesser importance, it lets you catch a reveal with Cosmere significance. But that isn’t the (major) reason I recommend it.

There are a LOT of important mechanics dropped and referenced in RoW. SH gives you the background to better understand those and avoid confusion.

You do not need Era 2 to read SH. I’d recommend getting SH (which is a short novella) and reading it before RoW.

https://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Secret-History-Brandon-Sanderson-ebook/dp/B01B0NS93U/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mistborn+secret+history&qid=1627669465&sprefix=secret+his&sr=8-1

It’s 5$ on Amazon and is digital only (except as part of AU or if you live in England).

There is a prose version that follows the graphic novel, and it's reading is included in the audiobook. I listened to it in my copy off the .com site. I will note that the UK version is about an hour shorter than the US version, so it's a UK thing.

> Also, the Gentlemen Bastards, starting with The Lies of Locke Lamora. Great low-fantasy crime stories.

I love that series, but he's become one of the authors notorious for delays along with George R R Martin and Patrick Rothfuss. Apparently for a good reason, if what I read when I tried to find out why the Thorn of Emberlain has been delayed is true, he tried to include more people in his writing process and it had a terrible effect on his mental health making him unable to write which is a real shame, but if what I've read is right, the book is actually finished so it may not be long...

Having said that, Amazon says it is "currently unavailable" and has a date of 17th of August 2020: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thorn-Emberlain-Gentleman-Bastard-Sequence/dp/0575077050

Google's info panel says "Expected on: 19 August 2021" but when you click through it says "Orion Publishing Group, 22 Sept 2016 - Fiction - 608 pages" so I wouldn't hold my breath, but I don't know, does the fact they say it's 608 pages mean he's finished writing it?

Here is a pre-order link for Amazon, but I expect it'll also be on Brandon's site on Tuesday (there was a link up for a while the other day, but it got taken down.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MXXWYT7

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Loose-Gemstone-Wholesale-Gemstones/dp/B00A0K8C4G/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_rp_c_1_6/132-3309026-0333524?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00A0K8C4G&pd_rd_r=8fb29501-c304-45e7-9a06-d43c1a0f481d&pd_rd_w=CcGS6&pd_rd_wg=iN3Ag&pf_rd_p=eedb2e0a-dc98-41ea-a87a-c2ba640d1762&pf_rd_r=7M4Z6AG0AS3KVQDNKXJR&psc=1&refRID=7M4Z6AG0AS3KVQDNKXJR

they have some other varieties from that store too, all decent chip-broam size :D this mix is like half usable, they have an all garnet mix and some sapphire/emerald/ruby

Yeah. I put the link in the "link" tab, but I guess it didn't work.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/could-consciousness-all-come-down-to-the-way-things-vibrate?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I absolutely loved it. I bought both the graphic audio and novel versions and the audio made me feel more attached to the characters and the production was fantastic. PSA: of you search for “Graphic Audio discount codes” you can usually get a discount.

This link may work for a discount:

https://dealspotr.com/activate-code/-ds-35-off-all-orders-at-graphicaudio-site-wide

I agree. I would suggest that OP go ahead and spend a little more money and get Arcanum Unbounded. There are some stories that will be spoilers for other books but they'll want to read them eventually. Also, there are two stories and a novela that you can read at anytime.

https://www.amazon.com/Arcanum-Unbounded-Collection-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/076539118X/ref=asc_df_076539118X/

The easiest way is to go in to any local jeweler, and ask them to check your ring size. It's usually free, easy and accurate. Be sure to check any fingers you are interested in wearing a ring on. Just type the sizes in a note on your phone, then you've got several different fingers if you ever need to know.

The next easiest is order a ring sizing gauge set from somewhere online. Amazon has some. This way however, isn't free. It does get you a ring sizing gauge though if you ever need to use it again.

You're talking about House War? (there's also a pen & paper RPG with a few supplements.)

That's definitely a lot higher than MSRP. It's $43 on Amazon right now, in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Crafty-Games-CFG13001-Mistborn-Boardgame/dp/B073RQQD1X

I played it once and enjoyed it. Plenty of reviews on YouTube.

They're shorter and definitely lighter fare, but the other series I always pick up as soon as they are released are the Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart (https://www.amazon.com/Starships-Mage-Glynn-Stewart-ebook/dp/B00QW6ZG14)

Stewart has a bunch of fairly boilerplate sci-fi series in terms of character and plot with excellent fleet combat scenes and a lot of creativity when it comes to coming up with different sets of technologies/features of the setting that enable, say, FTL travel, or prioritize fighter combat vs capital ship combat, and extrapolating out interesting uses for that technology that fit in-universe.

Starship's Mage is his series where the MacGuffin isn't some sort of special technology, but instead that 200 years from now a very illegal eugenics operation is undertaken to discover and activate latent genes that let its bearers use magic. FTL travel then becomes feeding the energy to perform a teleportation spell into a specialized rune matrix that causes an entire ship to jump 1 light-year instead of one person to jump 1 mile.

The series follows a young mage who joins a merchant ship as a jump mage but quickly realizes that his abilities in magic are far beyond that of normal mages and is eventually recruited by the government to become, in effect, a one-man peacekeeping force. In the background, a set of anti-mage systems are slowly moving towards open rebellion against the rest of the empire through the technological development of FTL travel and communications.

One nice thing is that the guy writes as fast as Brandon does. A new book every year in that series, and if you branch out to his other series, he puts out like 3-4 books a year on a rotating schedule.

It appears to be available in the Amazon preview of the print book (not the kindle version.) I searched for Hoid and was able to find the whole thing, starting on page 588. Don't spend too much time scrolling through, because I think they limit how many pages you can preview.https://www.amazon.com/Elantris-Tenth-Anniversary-Authors-Definitive-ebook/dp/B003G93YLY

That said, I recommend the 10th Anniversary edition in general as it has a lot of extras that the original doesn't have.

Yes, you should be able to. I recommend checking on Amazon for the details.

Should be able to jailbreak fairly easily if I'm not mistaken. I jailbroke my original paperwhite a few years back to let me use custom fonts and screensavers. It's not too difficult if you're even slightly tech savy. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-jailbreak-your-kindle-1783864074

> Its not like my abstract would be any more than pretty much that one sentence

and that would be great! still a little wordy for my taste but that's common. Laying that foundation, indicating the idea you're trying to support, allows readers to see how the arguments support the conclusion. Without the context, it's easy to miss the component of a vague wob that you're drawing attention to.

> these theories are more essays than studies

You draw a specific conclusion and supplying some supporting evidence. This is technical writing. The important bits should be easy to pick out, and the arguments easy to follow. Framing the argument after the fact just cries "read me again". I'd also recommend less-is-more to make your writing more palatable, but YMMV

https://lifehacker.com/write-less-say-more-the-power-of-brevity-5909543

I enjoy reading your ideas, it's nice to see someone theorizing.

Here is the amazon link for when I bought it a few months ago. I'm not 100% sure that this will work but it seems like it should.

Is this what OP is talking about:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legion-Emperors-Soul-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/057511634X

?

Get a free trial of comix unlimited and read it there: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E62OKF8?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_0&storeType=ebooks (honestly it is not very good, I would not pay a lot for a hard copy).

There are two podcasts I know of:

Stormlight Archive read-along (currently on TWoK): https://www.buzzsprout.com/285939

Cosmere read-along (currently read TFE and The Eleventh metal, now close to finishing TWoA): https://www.thesanderlanche.com/

> Lightsongs is described as all different shades of red, where as kaladins is described as shades of red, black and white.

Wouldn't this be plausible from perfect color? There's a famous painting that looks all black until your eyes adjust and you can see the different shades. When you have perfect color you would immediately see the shades while someone who doesn't may not notice the shades ever. That can be extrapolated across all the red spectrum and then I can see where really white reds and dark reds look white and black to someone who doesn't have the third or greater heightening.

so the Top of This picture could well be considered White if you are below the Third Heightening, while the darkest parts of This picture could be considered black. If you have the Third Heightening you would see all of the colors as Red, but if you don't it would be easy to mistake the highly tinted and hued Reds as White or Black.

Oh hey! Some of my Adolin was bred in there, I see.

Yours is way better than mine. I could not figure out how to get any blonde without wrecking the face. Yours is great!

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Just so you know, while there's definitely some skill in getting good results, Artbreeder is a deep learning program that generates faces (and other things) based on your guidance. It doesn't involve any actual painting or drawing on the part of the user.

https://artbreeder.com/

Artbreeder is an machine learning AI app. I don't fully understand how it works, as I'm not any kind of computer science person, but basically it has been trained to take and morph pictures enough that it can generate images semi-randomly.

By morphing an image several different ways, then having a human selectin which one is closer to what they want and feeding that image back into the program to repeat, we can generate pictures pretty close to what we want. Honestly, if you're curious, I'd recommend just messing around the app.

I’m going to say yes. I used this doppler effect calculator and this wikipedia page to figure this out.

First, I found that the upper frequency for visible light is 790THz. I put that as the emitted frequency, the reciever velocity as 0 and the source velocity as 60 mph. The resulting frequency was 732 THz, which according to Wikipedia is about halfway between the two ends of “violet” this doesn’t really sound right to me, shouldn’t normal people be able to see the doppler effect if this is true?

Regardless this means that perfect color sense lets you detect the doppler shift.

He wrote some Conan books but I haven't read them.

He wrote a historical fiction book about Colonial American under the pen name Reagan O'Neil call "The Fallon Blood" that's pretty good. It's actually a Trilogy though I haven't read the other two yet:

The Fallon Blood https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312859732/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_W8EMB6MDHQG07NZ04A15

FWIW: November is the main print release by Tor, but Dawnshard is available now as an Ebook, and there's also some limited stock of the hardback.

Happy Cake day!

https://www.amazon.com/Stormlight-Archive-Nightblood-Premium-T-Shirt/dp/B07X3ZL49Y/ref=sr_1_27?dchild=1&qid=1628604286&refinements=p_4%3ABrandon+Sanderson&s=apparel&sr=1-27

Now do white sand!

(or, if you have an audible subscription... I HIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHLY RECOMMEND THE GRAPHIC AUDIO VERSION) https://www.amazon.com/White-Sand-Dramatized-Adaptation-Book/dp/B08KTV7N2M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

If you're a true baller, get the graphic novel and flip through it WHILE you listen to the graphic audio.

Peak opulence.

https://imgur.com/a/S3Z1oTt

https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Ages-Mistborn-Book-Three/dp/0575089946/ref=tmm_pap_title_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

I usually read real copies of the books but when I go out somewhere I bring them on my kindle and usually read at least 7 or 8 chapters from each book on my kindle and I've never had a problem. Pictures show up fine in Stormlight and everything.

It's kinda tough to find a kindle with buttons, I'd honestly recommend the standard paperwhite(no buttons) but here's one with buttons that seems to have good reviews, it's just an older model.

https://www.amazon.com/Dawnshard-Stormlight-Archive-Brandon-Sanderson-ebook/dp/B08MXXWYT7/ available Tuesday.

Should be available on other storefronts at the same time. No print version until after the Kickstarter backers get their dead tree copies.

Dust, by Elizabeth Bear might interest you. Its not tropical islands, but set on a stranded world-ship that was carrying humans to a new star system but broke down and has survived through ingenuity and the creation of new biospheres unique to life on a ship. There's this neat faux-feudalism thing going on where for the first few chapters you could seriously think you were reading some sort of classic medieval fantasy novel with angels and wizards, but, slowly but surely, the layers get pulled back to reveal whats actually going on.

And there are cool mono-molecular swords which basically act like shardblades, so thats fun.

https://www.amazon.com/Dust-Jacobs-Ladder-Elizabeth-Bear/dp/055359107X

Get yourself a cheap laminator and some thick laminating sleeves and you cam make yourself some nice personal bookmarks!

You can also just print off bookmarks online and laminate them and there you go.

There is a deleted, post-credits scene in the 10th anniversary edition.

You can find it here. Wait for the Amazon page to full load, then click "Look Inside⤵" above the image of the cover to open up the preview of the text. The scroll about 3/4ths of the way down to page 588 for the deleted epilogue with Hoid and the Skaze.

I don’t know if you mean a link to the audio of that specific line or a link to the series on audiobook, but here’s the link to the audio book on Amazon. I used audible and I loved it. Sorry if it wasn’t what you were looking for but I hope it helped! https://www.amazon.com/Way-Kings-Book-Stormlight-Archive/dp/B0041JKFJW

Elantris is available in audible, just not in my region, according to amazon/audible:

https://www.amazon.com/Elantris/dp/B001JDPYRQ

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Elantris-Audiobook/B015YEFH40