This is so different from what I’m used to seeing from you! Him ranking and trademarking everything is hilarious 😆 My current hype ranking: 1. Tress of the Emerald Sea 2. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook
@@ChristmasLore not really 🤷♂️ sounds good to me and it's his normal writing style with a little more Pratchett-esque humour which is really hitting the nail imo.
@@Zeer0042 Which I don't see too much in high fantasy writers. Most high fantasy seems to have a serious tone, and I imagine everything very grim, but when I read Brandon's work it all comes to me very colorful and fun.
I thought that the Cosmere ones would interest me the most but this story has hit all the right beats for me so far, very excited for secret project 2 now.
This is like if Dan Brown wrote his own spin on "Project Hail Mary" but lost a bet and had to replace Robert Langdon with Anthropocene John Green and set the whole story in Old School Runescape. 4.8/5 Stars.
This books seems so fun and entertaining, really can’t wait to read it, also Listening Brandon read it is so wholesome is voice and cadence is so great and peaceful
Huge fan of how cheerful and bright these books have been. I can only assume the happier tone was caused by the way that you wrote them, as a personal project to cheer yourself up. Looking forward to seeing if the other two books also follow this trend.
This was absolute gold, it really gave isekai/ light novel feels combined with a lot better writing than what most of them have, can't wait on reading this once this is complete. Also don't you dear to shorten the tittle, it is part of the whole light novel tradition after all.
See, I loved Tress of the Emerald Sea for being a sort of romantic fantasy quest as a concept and how it was written... but The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England is just hilarious and right up my alley, literally an isekai ('another world') portal fantasy of a sort, and as he said, a bit of inspiration from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Chef's kiss!
I am so happy the kickstarter got the attention it did, and you've done amazing work with what we've seen so far. Congartulations and keep up the good work! :D
Darn I thought that one of the inspirations would have been Terry Pratchett. Still gonna be a great book and I'm very excited for this one. However the idea of Sanderson doing a Terry Pratchett style comedic fantasy is very appealing
The constant reviews are my favorite thing about this. That's such a unique character trait! Really makes me interested in his past.Why does a reviewer have combat mods and training? Extreme reviewer, going to the worlds most dangerous places and giving them a star rating out of five? Guess I have to wait a whole year to find out.
I wish Brandon would start these videos with a blurb of what it is about, just like would be written on a dust-jacket. I don't want to be so spoiled to listen to the first handful of chapters, but am okay with getting the title and a blurb.
They have the video setup with chapters, you can skip to the end to list to his influence. That's what I did as I'm a bit impatient when wanting to read a story. I'm currently mentally asking is it 2023 yet?
@@Stumblingthroughlife yes. This one sort of explained the story a bit better at the end than the first one did. Still wish there was a blurb-like statement that is concise and draws us in like the back of a book.
Yeah, it's crazy how much jealousy exists in this community. There's just as much love, but man. It's not like Brandon hasn't been working non-stop for over 20 years to get to this point in his career, to be this successful.
It’s just joking/lighthearted envy not actual hate, at least from what I’ve seen. The same type of stuff Brando fans say when he talks about how much he writes and works.
There is a lot of salt coming from Twitter. There have been a few journos throwing shade too. Even low blows like insulting his beliefs etc. Its just envy coming from people expecting instant success and millions of dollars for doing nothing.
There's something about this that reminds me of the Percy Jackson books, in a good way. It's interesting to see Brandon tackle the Bourne series after doing Die Hard! Very excited for his take on this style. Also, it's a very Isekai-ish premise for sure. Hitchhikers meets Bourne meets PJ meets Time Travel(?) - sounds like a fun mix.
People should understand that not only did Brandon write five secret books while following his other agenda, but he is also the marketing mastermind behind this whole success. Of course implementing his ideas is greatly achieved by the whole team, but let's go through a few milestones that happened in the last week. The dramatic announcement video (his idea btw) has the most views in his channel by far, notwithstanding being one of the most recent ones. He knew he had a silver bullet asking his fans to share, comment and like that video. Why? Because he NEVER does that. Just picture this: before this whole event, his channel had a 15k-50k average views per day. After it, he has ranged between 230k-700k views per day. In one week he added 42k new suscribers to his channel (12% of his total subscribers). That's not all... Scheduling two weekly streams over the course of March has given momentum and expectation to his campaign, adding to the final hype that's keeping the stats over the roof. This whole success also gets mingled with TH-cam's algorithms, leaving remnant flows of people coming back to his content. Let's go on... Not only did he just raised the biggest kickstarter in the history of the platform. He has already covered a year of work in advance (2023). Of course there a lot of details to take care of and edges to sharp, but the fact that he has scheduled more than a year in advance of sales strategy and planning is simply stunning. It doesn't end there... This is clearly the most audacious move he has done in his entire career regarding manufacturing, distribution and retailing. He has proven that Dragonsteel can be completely autonomous from any other third parties, and even being more successful. This will also allow his team to experiment a lot, in a different areas of the business. And thus developing a unique expertise in the field, empowering his whole company. He also made it clear that he still wants to support bookshops in his future releases. And guess what? This groundbreaking move will give him a lot of leverage when talking to New York. I honestly believe he might actually revolutionize the way physical books are being sold (being merchandising one of the cornerstones of this revolution). And last but not least... Brandon keeps delivering high quality content to his readers, keeps building this amazing and complex web of intertwined stories that is the cosmere. His product is not even worth money at this point. He might not realize this now, but he is forging the history of modern twenty-first century writing. And the best of all? He is doing it in an extremely healthy and sure-footed way. I truly think this is unprecedented territory. I would really like him to read this. Not because I am saying any novelty. But because I want you to know that we appreciate all of this, Brandon. And that right there, gives our whole writer-reader relationship a pewter boost. Please keep following your instincts, they will keep taking this project to unparallel dimensions.
These chapters seem to have a more relaxed tone than I’m used to hearing. Also, it seems to remind me of Another Kingdom by Andrew Klavan, though I should note I never finished even the first book in that trilogy.
"Let us consider Nebraska..." 🤣 I actually experienced this visiting Spain in 1998 where the high school kids fashion was almost identical to Eastern US 1988.
Any chance you will add a 1 shipment option to lower shipping cost? Put a minimal amount orders to open it to make sure you will have enough orders to allow a second printing of the books 1-3 to be shipped with the 4th. Same can be done to swag option, having all the items in a 2nd order shipped at the end of 2023. This way there will be no need to store all the books/stuff until the end of 2023, and all of us outside USA can get it with a reasonable shipping cost.
The dragonsteel team talked about that in one of the earlier livestreams. It sounds like they're still figuring out what they're gonna do for international shipping. They mentioned the possibility of shipping all at once but I think they said there were problems on their end doing that. They have the rest of this year to figure it out and I'm sure they'll do whatever they can to make international shipping as reasonable as possible.
@@nathanbaca5131 I don't think anything will change for this campaign. Anything they figure out will be applied to next year's Kickstarter for Words of Radiance leatherbounds. They can't ship things in one shipment because they don't have warehouse space to keep everything for a year-and getting warehouse space could cost as much in rent as the current shipping costs.
I'm glad the video has chapter sections! (I'll wait to listen to the audiobooks when they come out.) The title sounds very similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Now to listen to the "Where did this story come from?" section.)
I'm at 0:31, about to listen to you read this off. Just want to reiterate: THANK YOU for all that you do. I was bored of the fantasy genre until I discovered your work. I was in a rut with my reading, and, frankly, with my writing. Getting inspired was just so hard. Since devouring Way of Kings (the first of your books I ever read), I have had my oldest love rekindled again. I've been able to get through not just your work, but the work of about half a dozen other authors, reading at a pace and volume I didn't think was possible anymore. And my writing has been going amazingly. Today I hit 90,000 words on my first novel, 20,000 on my second. Thanks again. NOW to spoil myself by watching the rest of this video.
Not sure if it’s clear as to what the target age would be. Seems somewhat along the Skyward age target (quasi YA). Hoping this will be one I can read to my 8 year old. I just finished reading Skyward 1-3 with him and he absolutely loved them.
@@s.p.8508 I also cant tell if its just because he's reading it. I think I wouldnt have read it quite as whimsical myself, and that adds a lot to the YA feel. almost like magical treehouse lol
@@hunterlavish yeah, that could be a factor. I don’t typically listen to people read, so I’m not sure how I would have read it either. I really like the humor though. He said in the original video that they are all more adult geared than YA, so I guess we will see
Another option for your kid that Brandon wrote is the Alcatraz series, if you haven’t read it already. It’s an amazing series that both kids and adults love. I read that when I was 8-9 and still go back to it periodically.
The similarities are thin but it kind of made me think of the Magic 2.0 series. Its about a kid who discovers that life is a computer simulation and changes his code to go back to medieval times and become a wizard, using his smart phone to run "magic" programs. I can't wait to read it!
The memories slowly coming back definitely reminded me of Project Hail Mary, which is a fantastic book. Hearing it mentioned as influence was pretty cool.
These books seem so unlike what I’d normally pick up. I think they’ll be so fun and outside of the typical fantasy box! I loved Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in high school and this seems like a similar vibe. Can’t wait! Thanks for your reading and congrats again on your Kickstarter success.
You know, this is written in Sanderson's actual voice. Usually, his readings sound off to me because it doesn't "sound" the way that I hear it in my head. I would go so far as to say that, with very little work, he'd be a great choice for the audiobook narrator (and I want to emphasize that if this idea were suggested to me before I read this--and I did read the text rather than listen--I would have thought that it was absolutely unreasonable and ridiculous). Now, I'm sure Sanderson has plenty to do without *that* task on his plate as well. Which is why I think you should make Dan Wells do it instead, obviously.
As someone who grew up in Nebraska I can say that he describes it perfectly. It is always behind on fashion, music, and lots of other aspects. That made me laugh pretty hard!
Ok, I'm super stoked for these secret books, they sound super fun. I'm hoping you get good narrators for the audiobooks. (I take all my books in audio format)
Brandon you're a genuinely great author. I get hyped by even your non-Cosmere works. Some tune out when they here something isn't a part of your larger, interconnected universe that is the Cosmere. I get it but I tend to like almost everything you write. Not quite everything, I will be honest, but easy 80 plus percent. I am excited for more. Comere or not, I want to see everything you come up with. Thanks for telling stories.
This and Tress of the Emerald Sea have a more comical, witty and sarcastic undertone to them that's reminiscent of Terry Pratchett more than Brandon Sanderson's usual style. But I'm loving it, it's hooking me right in just as any of his Cosmere novels did. I'm stunned at how flexible and wide Brandon Sanderson's writing style is. This, along with his inhuman ability to churn out high quality 800 page books at the speed of light convinces me that he is not a human being - he is a highly advanced extraterrestrial with hyperspace and time travelling abilities.
I can't afford the hardcovers at the moment (international shipping is cruel), but I loved the tone of secret project 1 and I love this one! I will try to upgrade from the ebooks
I love this one. I got immediately pulled in to the story and would have loved to continue reading or listening when Brandon finished. It also reminded me of books I've read along time ago, like Magic kingdom for sale or Wizard in rhyme.
Hitchhiker's Guide + Westworld has to be the inspiration for this (I haven't finished the video so if he says that then cool). Also seems the word "nanite" lends itself towards perhaps being in a video game or simulation.
So hyped for the books starting to arrive next year. This had its lightsong vibe about it, which was equally fun, when contemplating about, who one might have been in previous life, or in other dimension, in this case.
Whyyy is this scarily close to something I've been writing throughout 2020?? The amnesia, his reactions, the body enhancing technology and more... I mean, I really enjoy this, don't get me wrong! It's just eerie to have written something so similar to Brandon Sanderson 😅
While I can't imagine not listening to a Cosmere novel read by our resident couple, Michael a Kramer and Kate Reading, here is a list of other amazing narrators that I enjoy. I will listen to anything they narrate. Nick Podehl Simon Vance Luke Daniels Steven Pacey
Noticed that Brandon has a new book on his shelf behind him: Barbara Hambly's "Dragonsbane". He's talked before about how important it was to him, but I still find myself reading tea leaves about whether there's a message hidden here.
Luke Daniels would be perfect to narrate this book! He narrated Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer (and the entire Magic 2.0 series)! Please consider Luke Daniels!
Messed up on the title graphic a bit (Sorry). The title is actually...
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook For Surviving Medieval England.
Really appreciate all the work you put in Adam!
Literally just a light novel title lol, Brandon is officially an Isekai author.
@@Dual_Ralle Does that mean we get to shorten it as a nickname like they do? KonoSuba, Bofuri, FruWiz... it does have kind of a ring to it.
I forgive you
I actually like "handbook" more! its just enough differentiation from "hitchhikers guide"
Become a cytonic pilot:❌
Become a knight Radiant:❌
Become a tree reviewer: ✔
"Am I a Cosplayer?!" I imagine he says this in complete horror which makes this line extra friggin hilarious.
This is so different from what I’m used to seeing from you! Him ranking and trademarking everything is hilarious 😆
My current hype ranking:
1. Tress of the Emerald Sea
2. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook
Can't wait for Tress!
Same
Hi Merph!
I’m actually more excited to read The Frugal Wizard’s handbook. Excited for Tress also, but book #2 sounds better imo. Your vids are great btw!
Tress was set up better.
"attempting to speedrun the conquest of France" had me dying 🤣
Brandon projecting his dislike of fish onto his characters 😂 I can definitely relate haha
It is one of the cosmere's (and what ever this is) greatest constants!
And his disdain for Nebraska 🤣
I hate fish!
A little Babblefish never hurt anyone 😁 !
Lol, I thought of this too, he made note of it during 1 of his BYU TH-cam lectures 😄
The fact that this dimensional travel technology has SPEEDRUNNERS has me on the floor! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't know if it's the way Brandon is reading them, but these books seem so humorous--like practical humor.
Emulating Pratchett... and dramatically failing.
@@ChristmasLore not really 🤷♂️ sounds good to me and it's his normal writing style with a little more Pratchett-esque humour which is really hitting the nail imo.
@@Zeer0042 And it's more of a writing style than trying to copy an author.
@@dreadfulpennyanimates3476 yepp, he's got plenty of humour in his other books similar to this :)
@@Zeer0042 Which I don't see too much in high fantasy writers. Most high fantasy seems to have a serious tone, and I imagine everything very grim, but when I read Brandon's work it all comes to me very colorful and fun.
I thought that the Cosmere ones would interest me the most but this story has hit all the right beats for me so far, very excited for secret project 2 now.
This is like if Dan Brown wrote his own spin on "Project Hail Mary" but lost a bet and had to replace Robert Langdon with Anthropocene John Green and set the whole story in Old School Runescape. 4.8/5 Stars.
You rating it cracked me up.
This sounds like an Isekai kind of book, already loving it!
I was about to say the same. Brandon jeg made an isekai. :D
Isekai but senator Armstrong is the mc
I literally thought the same lol
Buy an isekai and get one free
His first adaptation is going to be an isekai anime! They'll make a show for any isekai that is a bit popular.
Did Brandon just write his "bad" idea time travel tourism? Because this is genius! :)
This is like The hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy meets Terry Pratchett... And I love it!!!!!! Brandon you're the best
The title itself gave me immediate Rincewind vibes 😂
This books seems so fun and entertaining, really can’t wait to read it, also Listening Brandon read it is so wholesome is voice and cadence is so great and peaceful
Huge fan of how cheerful and bright these books have been. I can only assume the happier tone was caused by the way that you wrote them, as a personal project to cheer yourself up. Looking forward to seeing if the other two books also follow this trend.
Alright, alright, alright, I'm in. Even if the third and fourth aren't to my tastes, this is now two out of four that I desperately want.
Oh man 3 and 4 are the ones I'm much more excited about
This sounds really good. I love the humor and clueless first person narration. Can’t wait!
This was absolute gold, it really gave isekai/ light novel feels combined with a lot better writing than what most of them have, can't wait on reading this once this is complete. Also don't you dear to shorten the tittle, it is part of the whole light novel tradition after all.
See, I loved Tress of the Emerald Sea for being a sort of romantic fantasy quest as a concept and how it was written... but The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England is just hilarious and right up my alley, literally an isekai ('another world') portal fantasy of a sort, and as he said, a bit of inspiration from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Chef's kiss!
I am so happy the kickstarter got the attention it did, and you've done amazing work with what we've seen so far. Congartulations and keep up the good work! :D
Darn I thought that one of the inspirations would have been Terry Pratchett. Still gonna be a great book and I'm very excited for this one. However the idea of Sanderson doing a Terry Pratchett style comedic fantasy is very appealing
I only just saw the title, but if this is going to give any vibes of Hitchhiker's, then I'm going to cave on that Kickstarter after all!
That's awesome. I was getting Project Hail Mary vibes with the "am I a cosplayer?" very cool lol. I'm very much looking forward to this.
The constant reviews are my favorite thing about this. That's such a unique character trait! Really makes me interested in his past.Why does a reviewer have combat mods and training? Extreme reviewer, going to the worlds most dangerous places and giving them a star rating out of five? Guess I have to wait a whole year to find out.
I wish Brandon would start these videos with a blurb of what it is about, just like would be written on a dust-jacket. I don't want to be so spoiled to listen to the first handful of chapters, but am okay with getting the title and a blurb.
They have the video setup with chapters, you can skip to the end to list to his influence. That's what I did as I'm a bit impatient when wanting to read a story.
I'm currently mentally asking is it 2023 yet?
@@Stumblingthroughlife yes. This one sort of explained the story a bit better at the end than the first one did. Still wish there was a blurb-like statement that is concise and draws us in like the back of a book.
Amazing stuff! Also i cant get enough of the envy some writers are showing towards brandon and us, the fans.
Yeah, it's crazy how much jealousy exists in this community. There's just as much love, but man. It's not like Brandon hasn't been working non-stop for over 20 years to get to this point in his career, to be this successful.
What am I missing where’s the hate coming from?
Yeah where is the hate coming from? Which authors?
It’s just joking/lighthearted envy not actual hate, at least from what I’ve seen. The same type of stuff Brando fans say when he talks about how much he writes and works.
There is a lot of salt coming from Twitter. There have been a few journos throwing shade too. Even low blows like insulting his beliefs etc. Its just envy coming from people expecting instant success and millions of dollars for doing nothing.
There's something about this that reminds me of the Percy Jackson books, in a good way.
It's interesting to see Brandon tackle the Bourne series after doing Die Hard! Very excited for his take on this style.
Also, it's a very Isekai-ish premise for sure. Hitchhikers meets Bourne meets PJ meets Time Travel(?) - sounds like a fun mix.
right, he made depressed fantasy die hard in rythm of war, so now he's making quippy time travelling jason bourne!
I got that vibe right away from the first chapter title!
"It can be traumatic, though don't worry" is almost, almost like "don't panic"
People should understand that not only did Brandon write five secret books while following his other agenda, but he is also the marketing mastermind behind this whole success. Of course implementing his ideas is greatly achieved by the whole team, but let's go through a few milestones that happened in the last week.
The dramatic announcement video (his idea btw) has the most views in his channel by far, notwithstanding being one of the most recent ones. He knew he had a silver bullet asking his fans to share, comment and like that video. Why? Because he NEVER does that. Just picture this: before this whole event, his channel had a 15k-50k average views per day. After it, he has ranged between 230k-700k views per day. In one week he added 42k new suscribers to his channel (12% of his total subscribers).
That's not all...
Scheduling two weekly streams over the course of March has given momentum and expectation to his campaign, adding to the final hype that's keeping the stats over the roof. This whole success also gets mingled with TH-cam's algorithms, leaving remnant flows of people coming back to his content.
Let's go on...
Not only did he just raised the biggest kickstarter in the history of the platform. He has already covered a year of work in advance (2023). Of course there a lot of details to take care of and edges to sharp, but the fact that he has scheduled more than a year in advance of sales strategy and planning is simply stunning.
It doesn't end there...
This is clearly the most audacious move he has done in his entire career regarding manufacturing, distribution and retailing. He has proven that Dragonsteel can be completely autonomous from any other third parties, and even being more successful. This will also allow his team to experiment a lot, in a different areas of the business. And thus developing a unique expertise in the field, empowering his whole company. He also made it clear that he still wants to support bookshops in his future releases. And guess what? This groundbreaking move will give him a lot of leverage when talking to New York. I honestly believe he might actually revolutionize the way physical books are being sold (being merchandising one of the cornerstones of this revolution).
And last but not least...
Brandon keeps delivering high quality content to his readers, keeps building this amazing and complex web of intertwined stories that is the cosmere. His product is not even worth money at this point. He might not realize this now, but he is forging the history of modern twenty-first century writing. And the best of all? He is doing it in an extremely healthy and sure-footed way. I truly think this is unprecedented territory.
I would really like him to read this. Not because I am saying any novelty. But because I want you to know that we appreciate all of this, Brandon. And that right there, gives our whole writer-reader relationship a pewter boost. Please keep following your instincts, they will keep taking this project to unparallel dimensions.
Started listening and this already sounds like an isekai. Implementing modern mindsets into a medieval world is so interesting
I love it! The mystery, the humour, the throwback to the podcast idea! Plus the tree ratings are top notch!
I'm getting such an Adrian Tchaikovsky vibe from this and I LOVE that!
What a great title!!! Just incredible and I am excited to read more. Not going to learn more at all until then
These chapters seem to have a more relaxed tone than I’m used to hearing. Also, it seems to remind me of Another Kingdom by Andrew Klavan, though I should note I never finished even the first book in that trilogy.
You should. And yeah they do kinda remind me of Another Kingdom
I love it. Off the bat, as soon as he started mentioning his hatred of fish, I knew I'd love it.
"Let us consider Nebraska..." 🤣
I actually experienced this visiting Spain in 1998 where the high school kids fashion was almost identical to Eastern US 1988.
Any chance you will add a 1 shipment option to lower shipping cost?
Put a minimal amount orders to open it to make sure you will have enough orders to allow a second printing of the books 1-3 to be shipped with the 4th.
Same can be done to swag option, having all the items in a 2nd order shipped at the end of 2023.
This way there will be no need to store all the books/stuff until the end of 2023, and all of us outside USA can get it with a reasonable shipping cost.
The dragonsteel team talked about that in one of the earlier livestreams. It sounds like they're still figuring out what they're gonna do for international shipping. They mentioned the possibility of shipping all at once but I think they said there were problems on their end doing that. They have the rest of this year to figure it out and I'm sure they'll do whatever they can to make international shipping as reasonable as possible.
@@nathanbaca5131 I don't think anything will change for this campaign. Anything they figure out will be applied to next year's Kickstarter for Words of Radiance leatherbounds. They can't ship things in one shipment because they don't have warehouse space to keep everything for a year-and getting warehouse space could cost as much in rent as the current shipping costs.
The cover of this one looked the most interesting to me :)
I'm glad the video has chapter sections! (I'll wait to listen to the audiobooks when they come out.)
The title sounds very similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Now to listen to the "Where did this story come from?" section.)
I didn't think it was possible to be more excited about these books. Five out of five!
This is brilliant Brandon
I'm at 0:31, about to listen to you read this off. Just want to reiterate: THANK YOU for all that you do. I was bored of the fantasy genre until I discovered your work. I was in a rut with my reading, and, frankly, with my writing. Getting inspired was just so hard. Since devouring Way of Kings (the first of your books I ever read), I have had my oldest love rekindled again. I've been able to get through not just your work, but the work of about half a dozen other authors, reading at a pace and volume I didn't think was possible anymore. And my writing has been going amazingly. Today I hit 90,000 words on my first novel, 20,000 on my second.
Thanks again. NOW to spoil myself by watching the rest of this video.
I know they aren’t voting yet but I think Will Wheaton should narrate this one. Fits him well :)
I’d love to hear Will Wheaton read this!
@@ScrappinMad right?!
I absolutely love the title of Secret Project #2
What you're looking for is called Fleep (The webcomic)
The hitchhiker's guide but for wizards? Yes. I will read this.
Wow. I missed that.
BrandoSando? Yep, i'm reading it.
This sounds like it's going to be one of my favorites.
That “trademark” so hilarious.. 😅 Also 10/10 Tree reviews, would definitely follow.
Not sure if it’s clear as to what the target age would be. Seems somewhat along the Skyward age target (quasi YA). Hoping this will be one I can read to my 8 year old. I just finished reading Skyward 1-3 with him and he absolutely loved them.
Both the Frugal wizard and Tress’s tale both seem to be more YA targeted than his usual stuff.
@@s.p.8508 I also cant tell if its just because he's reading it. I think I wouldnt have read it quite as whimsical myself, and that adds a lot to the YA feel. almost like magical treehouse lol
@@hunterlavish yeah, that could be a factor. I don’t typically listen to people read, so I’m not sure how I would have read it either. I really like the humor though. He said in the original video that they are all more adult geared than YA, so I guess we will see
The 2 so far do give a YA vibe but he said the YA one he wrote wasnt included in these 4 books.
Another option for your kid that Brandon wrote is the Alcatraz series, if you haven’t read it already. It’s an amazing series that both kids and adults love. I read that when I was 8-9 and still go back to it periodically.
This is delightful! I can’t wait to read the whole thing!
Side note: Are the three Wheel of Time books behind you out of order for a reason? 🤔
I presume to annoy all of us with above average OCD
@@yobgodababua1862 *twitches*
I really enjoy these long form videos. Keep up the great work.
Damn already want to continue reading right now. Love this premise.
So much fun!!! I love the combo of all these themes and elements. I can't wait to read the rest of this.
I can imagine this character being played by Ryan Reynolds.
Thank you Brandon Sanderson!
Heck, Mr Brandon, please do a full reading as an official audiobook!
I thought i liked the last one, but i am in love with this one so far!!
This might be type casting him but I think Jim Dale would be an amazing narrator for this audiobook.
The similarities are thin but it kind of made me think of the Magic 2.0 series. Its about a kid who discovers that life is a computer simulation and changes his code to go back to medieval times and become a wizard, using his smart phone to run "magic" programs. I can't wait to read it!
the book sounds amazing. Strange question is that kurzgesagt plushie on the shelf?
I can totally hear Kirby Heyborne’s voice for this one’s audio book!!!
This is where the fun begins.
Knowing that this is more than likely a project from him we’d of never gotten if circumstances were different, I’m super pumped for it!
I absolutely love this! Wasn't too excited about the non-cosmere one before, but now I want the rest of this story so much! Can't wait
The memories slowly coming back definitely reminded me of Project Hail Mary, which is a fantastic book. Hearing it mentioned as influence was pretty cool.
Terry Pratchett isekai by Brandon Sanderson? I’m 100% in.
These books seem so unlike what I’d normally pick up. I think they’ll be so fun and outside of the typical fantasy box! I loved Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in high school and this seems like a similar vibe. Can’t wait! Thanks for your reading and congrats again on your Kickstarter success.
oooh yes, thanks for the previews!
You know, this is written in Sanderson's actual voice. Usually, his readings sound off to me because it doesn't "sound" the way that I hear it in my head. I would go so far as to say that, with very little work, he'd be a great choice for the audiobook narrator (and I want to emphasize that if this idea were suggested to me before I read this--and I did read the text rather than listen--I would have thought that it was absolutely unreasonable and ridiculous). Now, I'm sure Sanderson has plenty to do without *that* task on his plate as well. Which is why I think you should make Dan Wells do it instead, obviously.
As someone who grew up in Nebraska I can say that he describes it perfectly. It is always behind on fashion, music, and lots of other aspects. That made me laugh pretty hard!
Brandon is also from Nebraska.
@@channelnamepending8329 I know lol once I heard that it made me love him and his work even more
I've waited so long to hear Brandon say "Damn"
These books are so whimsical and joyful
Ok, I'm super stoked for these secret books, they sound super fun. I'm hoping you get good narrators for the audiobooks. (I take all my books in audio format)
Brandon you're a genuinely great author. I get hyped by even your non-Cosmere works. Some tune out when they here something isn't a part of your larger, interconnected universe that is the Cosmere. I get it but I tend to like almost everything you write. Not quite everything, I will be honest, but easy 80 plus percent. I am excited for more. Comere or not, I want to see everything you come up with. Thanks for telling stories.
This and Tress of the Emerald Sea have a more comical, witty and sarcastic undertone to them that's reminiscent of Terry Pratchett more than Brandon Sanderson's usual style. But I'm loving it, it's hooking me right in just as any of his Cosmere novels did. I'm stunned at how flexible and wide Brandon Sanderson's writing style is. This, along with his inhuman ability to churn out high quality 800 page books at the speed of light convinces me that he is not a human being - he is a highly advanced extraterrestrial with hyperspace and time travelling abilities.
I can't afford the hardcovers at the moment (international shipping is cruel), but I loved the tone of secret project 1 and I love this one! I will try to upgrade from the ebooks
I love this one. I got immediately pulled in to the story and would have loved to continue reading or listening when Brandon finished. It also reminded me of books I've read along time ago, like Magic kingdom for sale or Wizard in rhyme.
This reminds me of Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynn Jone. I really enjoyed these first chapters
Me too!
Is this going to be a nod to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy? Just based on the title.
Edit i have watched the entire video and yeah it is. Awesome
Hitchhiker's Guide + Westworld has to be the inspiration for this (I haven't finished the video so if he says that then cool). Also seems the word "nanite" lends itself towards perhaps being in a video game or simulation.
Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos- 🎈
This reminds me of some of the Terry Pratchett books! I love it!
i love this.
i can’t wait to read something so different from Brando
As a fellow Nebraskan, I was not prepared to get roasted this hard.
So hyped for the books starting to arrive next year.
This had its lightsong vibe about it, which was equally fun, when contemplating about, who one might have been in previous life, or in other dimension, in this case.
Incredible! I can't wait to hear about the others!
Whyyy is this scarily close to something I've been writing throughout 2020??
The amnesia, his reactions, the body enhancing technology and more...
I mean, I really enjoy this, don't get me wrong! It's just eerie to have written something so similar to Brandon Sanderson 😅
While I can't imagine not listening to a Cosmere novel read by our resident couple, Michael a Kramer and Kate Reading, here is a list of other amazing narrators that I enjoy. I will listen to anything they narrate.
Nick Podehl
Simon Vance
Luke Daniels
Steven Pacey
I am a sucker for multi-verse stories 😆
Noticed that Brandon has a new book on his shelf behind him: Barbara Hambly's "Dragonsbane". He's talked before about how important it was to him, but I still find myself reading tea leaves about whether there's a message hidden here.
He has it on his shelf because it's a special anniversary edition where he wrote the Forward
Thanks, Voidsabre. That makes a lot of sense.
I think that the web comic mentioned at 52:09 is “Fleep” by Jason Shiga.
That's awesome that you found it, I hope Brandon or one of his team sees this and lets him know! 👍
Nooooo not the cliff hanger! Im stoked for this book
THIS is the one I'm looking forward to the most!!
This one is hilarious!!! I have got to get this ebook when it becomes available!!!
Nick Podehl would be a perfect narrator for this book
I also want to see this!
I'm giggling silly sitting here listening at work.
Luke Daniels would be perfect to narrate this book! He narrated Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer (and the entire Magic 2.0 series)! Please consider Luke Daniels!
That series is so much fun! As much as i love Michael Kramer, i am all in for Luke Daniels for this one.
I take back my initial submission of Quinn's Ideas for narrator...no reason for him to fall so low...😓
That would be perfect indeed. Story has a similar feel. Luke Daniels it is. Please 🙏
What is Brandon Sanderson's love/hate relationship with seafood. His characters either hate it or the entire planet eats only it.
Just hearing the part titles just screams of Alcatraz energy definitely going to look into this one
Omg, so excited for this one! The first one is really cute, but if I hadn't joined the kickstarter already, this one definitely would've made me!