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A place to discuss stories set in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere! Non-Cosmere series such as Skyward are also welcome here.
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Hey! So this community is intended to discuss novels written by Brandon Sanderson, a massively popular fantasy author. He has several series, such as Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive which are set in a shared universe called the Cosmere. The community might still be a bit niche for Lemmy, but with the surge in new users (Myself included) I figured it would be worth creating communities like this.
If you've never read any of his work though, I'd highly recommend trying it out! He tends to write very character driven fantasy novels, characterized by very detailed magic systems. They're relatively easy reads compared to some more dense authors such as George R.R. Martin or Patrick Rothfuss, but still have phenomenal plots and payoff.
A good place to start if you're looking for something easy to hop into is a novella called The Emperors Soul. It can be read completely standalone, is short enough to finish in an afternoon, and won a Hugo award for Best Novella the year it was released. Another good place would be the first Mistborn novel, The Final Empire, which is part of a trilogy.