The word “fantasy” often brings to mind a handful of tropes: dragons and princesses, a chosen one and a powerful sword, knights and castles and wizards with staves. But the truth is, there’s a wealth of wonderful worlds in contemporary…
Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere is an interconnected universe in which many of his written works take place. While each book or series can be read and enjoyed on its own, every Cosmere story is relevant to the broader narrative. In this…
It’s happening again. Stephen King is making us think there’s the possibility of another Dark Tower story. As if sitting around waiting for news of the TV adaptation wasn’t hard enough, now we’ve got the man himself teasing us with…
Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe consists of dozens of novels and stories, with a huge variety of settings, characters, and magic systems. Adaptations have been somewhat slow to come, with a few tabletop adventure games the only non-novel Cosmere ventures thus…
We were already having a hard time being patient with Mike Flanagan and his upcoming Dark Tower TV adaptation, and now Stephen King goes and gets us all excited. While all the tweet is, technically, is a simple statement of…
The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s magnum opus, drawing characters and themes from many of his other works together into the strange and wonderful land of Mid-World. But while it’s certainly possible to enjoy all 7 Dark Tower books…
Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere is an incredibly diverse place, with the only similarities between worlds being that they almost all have humans, and most of the ones we know of have some form of Investiture (the Cosmere version of magic). Otherwise,…
Science fiction has struggled since its inception to shake off the notion that it isn’t serious, that it’s all about little green men, that it’s basically fantasy in space (my local library has a green alien head on all the…
While we’re still waiting for a studio to actually commit to Mike Flanagan’s epic 5 season, 2 movie Dark Tower adaptation, that hasn’t stopped rabid fans (like me) from getting really excited about the project. Given Flanagan’s excellent work on…
Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere is a vast, interconnected universe, full of colorful characters and equally colorful magic systems. He’s written almost thirty stories that take place in the Cosmere, from brief snippets and short stories to thousand-page epics. They all interconnect…
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