WARNING: This episode contains full spoilers for all Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere up to and including the prologue for Wind & Truth. All previous Stormlight Archive books, Mistborn (thru Lost Metal and including Secret History), Secret Projects (especially The Sunlit Man), and other Cosmere ephemera are all on the table. You’ve been warned.

In the first installment of The Sandee Boyz, Matt sat down with co-host Chris Visser on the release day of Wind & Truth, the fifth book of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive Series. They focus primarily on the book’s prologue as well as their journeys before this destination, which promises to be one of the Cosmere’s big turning points. Is it a two-hours discussion about a 17-page prologue? Yes, but it’s is also a free-wheeling gabfest about all the Cosmere leading up to this pivotal moment. Lots of speculation for what might happen, analysis of Sanderson’s narrative conventions, how the prologue brings the other prologues full circle, concerns about Adolin’s safety, and so much more.

Also Chris learns what the book’s structure is. Live. On the air. And it’s rad.

Next time: Wind & Truth Days 1-5

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