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Arcanum Unbounded

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
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Publisher's Summary

Welcome to New York Times and Sunday Times best seller Brandon Sanderson's first collection of short fiction.

These wonderful works, originally published individually, have been collected for the first time and convey the true expanse of the Cosmere. Telling the exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, Arcanum Unbounded includes the Hugo Award-winning novella The Emperor's Soul and the never-before-published Stormlight Archive novella Edgedancer.

The collection includes nine works in all:

  • Edgedancer (Stormlight Archive)
  • 'The Hope of Elantris' (Elantris)
  • 'The Eleventh Metal' (Mistborn)
  • The Emperor's Soul (Elantris)
  • 'Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania' (excerpt, Mistborn)
  • 'Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell' (Threnody)
  • 'Sixth of Dusk' (First of the Sun)
  • 'Mistborn: Secret History' (Mistborn)

This superb collection also includes essays which offer insight into the numerous worlds in which the stories are set.

©2016 Brandon Sanderson (P)2016 Macmillan Audio

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good stories, missing mechanics

it collection is great but the chapters and time stamp are missing.

filler words here

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Great stories! Definitely builds on the Cosmere.

Wish the different stories were easily accessible and labelled somehow, looking for the title being updated

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Good collection

Fans of Brandon sanderson will love this collection. Some stories are better then others but overall a good collection.

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Different and super enjoyable

These short novels helped me realise how much I still need to learn about the Cosmere. The performers are absolutely great, and the stories are fantastic as always.

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Fantastic book

I Loved it! The short stories where all great! Will definitely re-read this one again! Too much to remember.

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This is a great addition to Brandons other works I really enjoyed the expansions on the world.

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Great collection

I originally picked this book up to hear edgedancer, as book 3 of the stormlight archive recommended I listen to it first. I'm glad it was at the end of the collection, because it spurred me to listen to the other cosmere stories. They vary in quality, but are generally great. The voiceover is, as always, fantastic too.

I highly recommend this, but only if you have read a lot of Sanderson's Cosmere related books.

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Great Cosmere Collection

I hadn't realised this was available, it contains stories in new worlda but also adds to Mistborn and Stormlight in particular.

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From someone new to Sanderson

This is my first taste of a Brandon Sanderson novel and having no idea of the background to any of the his series I did feel at times I was hearing only half a story for a couple of the stories, which was disappointing but the stories were stand alone were excellent and very enjoyable.
The male reader did take me a little while to get used to, but once I had he was alright, the female reader was excellent and made the stories very enjoyable

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Excellent collection of stories

This collection has a very interesting and fascinating collection of diverse storylines. Sixth of the dusk is One of my favourite short stories I have ever Listened to.

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