He let his pent-up zaniness loose, and penned a Middle Grade fantasy novel set in a world as fantastic as it was loony. He had spent a great deal of time building up a serious and epic fantasy universe, and now he was ready to do something closer to the opposite end of the spectrum. The happy compromise between these two positions is to take a vacation from one universe and set up shop in another. Though, on the other hand, it is often a bad idea to do no writing at all for an extended period. So it is often a good idea to step away from a universe that one has gotten too familiar with. When Brandon Sanderson was in the middle of writing the Mistborn series, which would go on to become widely acclaimed, he decided that he needed to take a break.Ī writer's brain is often a messy place, and staying too long in a single fictional world causes a lot of baggage and other rubbish to start piling up from floor to ceiling. What book series could possibly be worth all the hype I am making? Why, none other than Alcatraz vs. You may want to start before you reach the end of this post. It's funny, it's brilliant, it's something you should be reading already. Which of course doesn't mean that I am a literal fish, but it's something to keep in mind for today's post, for today I will be talking about a mold-breaking book series-one that takes subversion of the reader's expectations to new extremes, and has set a new standard for the practice.
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