Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

by Brandon Sanderson

Overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy―this iconic short fiction collection features stories set across the Cosmere universe.

The Stormlight Archive novella "Edgedancer" is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, which includes novellas and short stories from the worlds of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, Elantris, and more.

This collection includes:

“The Hope of Elantris” (Elantris)

“The Eleventh Metal” (Mistborn)

“The Emperor's Soul” (Elantris)

“Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 through 30” (Mistborn)

“White Sand" (excerpt; Taldain)

"Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” (Threnody)

“Sixth of Dusk” (First of the Sun)

“Mistborn: Secret History” (Mistborn)

"Edgedancer" (The Stormlight Archive)

These nine wonderful works, published elsewhere individually, convey the expanse of the Cosmere and tell exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, including the Hugo Award-winning novella “The Emperor's Soul” and an excerpt from the graphic novel "White Sand."

Finally, this collection includes essays and illustrations for the various planetary systems in which the stories are set.

Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere

The Stormlight Archive

● The Way of Kings

● Words of Radiance

● Edgedancer (novella)

● Oathbringer

● Dawnshard (novella)

● Rhythm of War

● Wind and Truth

The Mistborn Saga

The Original Trilogy

● Mistborn

● The Well of Ascension

● The Hero of Ages

Wax and Wayne

● The Alloy of Law

● Shadows of Self

● The Bands of Mourning

● The Lost Metal

Other Cosmere novels

● Elantris

● Warbreaker

● Tress of the Emerald Sea

● Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

● The Sunlit Man

The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series

● Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

● The Scrivener's Bones

● The Knights of Crystallia

● The Shattered Lens

● The Dark Talent

● Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson)

Other novels

● The Rithmatist

● Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds

● The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

Other books by Brandon Sanderson

The Reckoners

● Steelheart

● Firefight

● Calamity

Skyward

● Skyward

● Starsight

● Cytonic

● Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson)

● Defiant

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765391162
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/22/2016
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. His bestsellers have sold 40 million copies worldwide and include the Mistborn saga; the Stormlight Archive novels; and other novels, including Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Rithmatist, Steelheart, and Skyward. He won a Hugo Award for The Emperor's Soul, a novella set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he completed Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. Visit his website for behind-the-scenes information on all his books.

Table of Contents

Preface

THE SELISH SYSTEM

The Emperor's Soul

The Hope of Elantris

THE SCADRIAN SYSTEM

The Eleventh Metal

Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes Twenty-Eight through Thirty

Mistborn: Secret History

THE TALDAIN SYSTEM

White Sand

THE THRENODITE SYSTEM

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

THE DROMINAD SYSTEM

Sixth of the Dusk

THE ROSHARAN SYSTEM

Edgedancer

Editorial Reviews

09/19/2016
Bestseller Sanderson’s first short fiction collection gives readers nine behind-the-scenes glimpses at the intricate cosmogony that ties together his various blockbuster fantasy series. In the Shardworlds, magic comes from pieces of a shattered creator deity. Close investigation into how magic shapes its users in the world of Elantris (the Hugo-winning “The Emperor’s Soul”) contrasts neatly with how its users can reshape magic for their own needs (“White Sand,” a graphic novel excerpt). Complete with spoiler alerts for the Mistborn series, a short story (“The Eleventh Metal”) tells of the training of original Mistborn trilogy protagonist Kelsier, and a novella (“Mistborn: Secret History”) fills in the trilogy’s resolution with his “afterlife” activities. Original to the collection, “Edgedancer” chronicles the madcap adventures of Lift, a user of “awesomeness,” who will be more important in upcoming Stormlight novels. Other pieces focus on non-series worlds: for example, in “Sixth of the Dusk,” competing uses of magical ecology fuse into a determination to save a planet from the dangerous “gifts” of advanced aliens. This collection is required reading for Sanderson fans, offering plenty for new readers who are undeterred by learning too much. Agent: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky Literary. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Brandon Sanderson

“The face of modern fantasy.”—USA Today

"One of the genre’s most beloved authors."—TIME

“Sanderson raises the genre stakes… A fan favorite.”—The New York Times

“[Sanderson] is not a brilliant writer of epic fantasy, he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.”—Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“[A] literary fantasy icon.”—Paste Magazine

“The genre’s most popular writer… easily one of the most successful and prolific fantasy writers of the century so far.”—Esquire

“Epic in every sense.”—The Guardian on The Way of Kings

“Sanderson’s vast worlds, surprising plots, and wonderful characters have taken the sci-fi fantasy world by storm.”—BookRiot

“Sanderson is a master.”—Library Journal

From the Publisher

Sept. 7, 2016
A sprawling collection of mini-epic fantasies from genre stalwart Sanderson (The Bands of Mourning, 2016, etc.).An expert forger confronts her greatest challenge yet: a man’s soul. A woman fights for survival on the edge of a forest swarming with bloodthirsty ghosts. A man risks his life to save a mysterious island that tries to kill him at every step. In these stories, Sanderson extends the worlds he’s created in his many novels—and begins to hint at how all these worlds are connected. This kind of thing is like catnip for a certain type of fantasy fan, and fans of Sanderson’s other works will eagerly devour this collection, in which familiar characters return and familiar worlds are further explored. The novella Edgedancer, for example, gives a minor character from the Stormlight Archive series a chance to fight assassins, face down storms, and, as she puts it, “be awesome.” When these stories are good, they’re very good, with all the quick wit, richly detailed settings, and memorable characters fans have come to expect from this prolific writer. But some of the stories in the collection are more like deleted scenes from other stories than like stand-alone tales, and others focus too much on worldbuilding and not enough on Sanderson’s real gifts for creating character, emotion, and suspense. There are some standout stories here, but overall, it’s more of a treat for superfans than a way for casual readers to dip into Sanderson’s work.

Kirkus Review