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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.

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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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Great content marred by poor reading

Great stories cursed by Kate Readings constant abrupt and unnecessary inflections complete with even more unnecessary and annoying pauses ruined this for me. I'm very surprised not to see more reviews critiquing this and hope there's an alternative to her readings available at some point as I'm a huge Brandon Sanderson fan.

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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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Why does the cover only credit Michael Kramer?

More wonderful stories from Sanderson and so well performed by both Michael and Kate. Kate deserves some cover credit too!

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Impossible to find a separate story to listen to as no titles in chapter list

No chapter titles mean you can’t select a short story to listen to- potentially exposing yourself to spoilers of other series if you want to read them canonically.

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Hidden little wonders

I love these 2 together, the voice behind the characters, such great talent, the little stories also are really nice, some hidden law was super fun to listen to

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Irritating performance and functionality

Incredibly frustrating that the chapters aren’t labelled. I find Kate Readings narrating style a bit hard to listen to. Her sentences seem to have a very noticeable upward or downward inflection.

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Where are the Chapter titles???

How are listeners supposed to navigate the seperate Novellas with 75+ unlabelled Chapters?? Please at least provide a pdf accompaniment Audible.

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