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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I had the same reaction. George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, and Brandon Sanderson have me spooked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of all those people, Sanderson shouldn’t have you spooked at all. As long as he doesn’t die, he will finish what he starts, I guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Hell, he picked up and finished the massive Wheel of Time series for Robert Jordan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Brandon Sanderson is a machine. Nothing like the others

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's about the frequency of Stormlight Archives releases. Last I checked, he stated he had over a dozen Cosmere novels to release before the next one drops. If he gets hit by a truck, that's the end of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah but that applies to every author

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

A dozen cosmere novels is what, four years of writing for him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah where is thorn of emberlain? What's the story with lynch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Apparently he has crippling anxiety. I get it and, out of everyone I've listed, I'm very okay with him and Sanderson. I'm just wary of getting invested in unfinished series. Lynch only has the Gentleman Bastards series, which I fell in love with. Sanderson has so many literary irons in the fire that he's going to have gobs of unfinished business if something happens to him or he pulls a GRRM and just fucks off one day.