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Interview #989: Brandon Sanderson and Harriet McDougal at Microsoft Research, Entry #26

Brandon Sanderson

All right. So, by way of farewell to everyone, there’s just a few things I want to say. First off, if anyone’s watching or anyone here, my website is brandonsanderson.com. And if you actually go on there and click on the Warbreaker —I need a new website, by the way. I’m sorry, my website’s antiquated. But you click on the little gem that says Warbreaker , you can download Warbreaker , one of my novels, for free. And again, DRM free. It’s a free sample. It’s a complete epic fantasy. I released it in 2009, I think. So, it’s a standalone, and I would recommend that to you. And I thank you guys all for listening.

The other things I want to promote—we’ll have Dwayne hold them up over there, if you would. We have copies of both Legion and The Emperor’s Soul , or are we sold out?

Dwayne

We’re out of Legion .

Brandon Sanderson

Okay, well we have copies of The Emperor’s Soul . The Emperor’s Soul is one of the breather novels I did between books last year. It is a novella. It’s about 200 pages. It’s set in the same world as Elantris , but it stands on its own. It uses different characters. If you’ve never tried anything of mine, it’s actually a really good place to start because it is so short. But it does all the things that I love to do—really interesting magic system, kind of approaches fantasy from my . . . I think you’ll really like it.

I think it’s the strongest piece of short fiction I’ve ever done. It’s about a woman who is hired to create a forgery of the soul of the emperor. He’s been wounded in the head, left as a vegetable, and his people want her to create a duplicate soul to stick in there so they can pretend he’s still around.

Okay, and you have Legion back of the store. Legion is another one. What else do you have back there, Dwayne? Do you have . . . We don’t have any Wheel of Time back stock, but we have Alloy of Law ? They’re gone, okay. [laughter]

Dwayne

All I have left here right now is two and three of Mistborn.

Brandon Sanderson

Two and three of Mistborn, okay. [laughter] And Emperor’s Soul . Really, if you haven’t tried that one, give that a try. I will be hanging around for a little bit longer signing books. Harriet will as well. So thank you guys for welcoming us in.

[applause]

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