Waiting on Wednesday 08/13/14
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick:
Legion: Skin Deep by Brandon Sanderson: November 30, 2014 (Subterranean Press)
It doesn’t matter if he writes 1000 pages or 100 pages for a book, it always amazes me what an amazing storyteller Brandon Sanderson is. Sure, I love his epic fantasy novels, but he’s also one of the handful of authors who can get me to connect with his characters even in a limited number of pages, like in his novella Legion about Stephen Leeds, a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personalities and skills. I’m very much looking forward to seeing more of Stephen in the follow up, Legion: Skin Deep.
“Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the new story begins, Leeds and his “aspects” are hired by I3 (Innovative Information Incorporated) to recover a corpse stolen from the local morgue. But there’s a catch. The corpse is that of a pioneer in the field of experimental biotechnology, a man whose work concerned the use of the human body as a massive storage device. He may have embedded something in the cells of his now dead body. And that something might be dangerous…
What follows is a visionary thriller about the potential uses of technology, the mysteries of the human personality, and the ancient human need to believe that death is not the end. Legion: Skin Deep is speculative fiction at it most highly developed. It reaffirms Sanderson’s place as one of contemporary fiction’s most intelligent—and unpredictable—voices.”
The BiblioSanctum 
Oh this was news to me
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Nice! This is new to me! Hope you enjoy it once you read it!
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Who do you have to sell your soul to to write so much so well? Amazing!
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Gonna read a Sanderson any day now . . . a non-WoT Sanderson . . . 😉
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Get on it!!! 😀
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What a cool idea! I do love novellas, it’s nice to take a break from the long form now and then. This sounds original and interesting, hopefully it won’t be too pricey! That’s the only drawback with Subterranean, everything costs so much.
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Yeah, I don’t often read novellas or short stories, but I make exceptions for authors I love and Sanderson’s definitely one of them. Especially since even his short fiction is so engaging. And I hope it won’t be too pricey either, I’ve never actually gotten anything from Subterranean (I don’t think), the first book I listened to in audio format which was a freebie from Audible!
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Interesting – I did read one of his novellas (The Emperor’s Soul), but I’ve stuck mostly with his thick, doorstopper epics. I may have to check this out.
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Oh, I ADORED The Emperor’s Soul, one of my favorites of his!
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A date! Finally! Looking forward to that.
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I really hope that date is right!
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I NEED THIS BOOK. I NEED THIS BOOK. I NEED THIS BOOK.
The novella was so awesome that I couldn’t wait to hear that he wrote a sequel.
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Really enjoyed the first one, looking forward to the second as well!
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Oo i didn’t read the first one I’ll have to. I heard it was based on a game and so I wasn’t that gung ho to snatch it up.
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I think you might be thinking of Infinity Blade! I don’t know that Legion was based on anything, I could be wrong though!
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