by Brandon Sanderson
So apparently I need to read more Brandon Sanderson, because so far everything I've read by him has gotten five stars from me. That's a pretty impressive record, honestly. The story has echoes of Ender's Game, but I felt it was different enough not to feel derivative (confession: I love Ender's Ga...
Another Sanderson WinnerLike everything Sanderson, this short story was well written and engaging. That was a lot of story in under 50 pages!
So, if you can't tell by looking at these first three posts, I'm on a little bit of a Sanderson kick right now. I read Firstborn on my way to work this morning. It's a great little short story. It's about a young man, Dennison, who has been trying his whole life to live up to his older brother's ...
This was OK... It just didn't really grab me. On a scale of 1 to 10, my interest in military battle theory is a -2, so I wasn't exactly engrossed here. There were some interesting concepts though, such as the expectations that others put on us, and those we put on ourselves, and how we don't always ...