![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. In the stunning sequel, Legion: Skin Deep, that talent is on full display. In Legion, a short, distinctly contemporary novella filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson revealed a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent. ![]() ![]() His ambitious, multi-volume epics (Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive) and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. So when the sequel, Legion: Skin Deep, was part of a Subpress package I recently picked up at the post office, I knew I was giving this one a shot ASAP!īrandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. Some say that good things come in small packages and in this case they were absolutely right! And yet, his Legion novella turned out to be the opening chapter of what I felt could be Sanderson's most fascinating creation yet. Considering just how bloated his latest works were, I doubted that short stories and novellas could be a format that he would be comfortable with. Given the enormous size of his novels, I had always wondered if Brandon Sanderson could write good short fiction. ![]()
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