And so I pitched my editor a series where the first trilogy is an epic fantasy series, and then years later an urban fantasy series, and then years after that a science fiction series, all set in the same world. And that’s often where my books come from-I find a place where the genre maybe hasn’t been explored fully, and I get really excited. This really interested me, because I’d just never seen it done quite the way I wanted to do it. ![]() So you see not just the life of the characters, but the life of their entire world? You know, write urban fantasies in a setting where the mythology and history are things you saw take place in the first part of the series. There are books that have done it the Wheel of Time did it, for example, with the introduction of steam power, but I wanted to do a story where I wrote a trilogy which explored a fantasy world, and then do other books years later where that fantasy world has now progressed, and its technology has progressed, so that it’s now almost more of an urban fantasy world. I envisioned a series in which there was real progress. Which in some ways is fun, but it’s not very realistic. What we do in fantasy, this kind of idealized time period, in literary terms we call it uchronia. Well, one of the things that bothers me about a lot of fantasy is that the worlds are strangely static, like we invent all sorts of contrived circumstances to keep them from progressing naturally, because we want stories of a certain type. So in what direction does this new one go, if you can say without spoilers? It seems like the story arc of the original Mistborn trilogy ( The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages ) was well resolved by the end of the third book. Tell me a little bit about the new Mistborn book, Alloy of Law. In this interview, I asked him to talk about his projects both current and future, including the Wheel of Time, and got him to give me some of his thoughts on writing fantasy and science fiction in general. Brandon is the author of ten novels and counting (not including the Wheel of Time novels). ![]() In addition to his continuing (and growing) success as a fantasy author in his own right, he was famously selected to complete the seminal epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time, after Robert Jordan’s death in September of 2007. Brandon Sanderson has had an eventful last few years.
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