At the sentence level, he is no great gift to English prose. They’d be right, in a way, and that’s what Sanderson agrees with. Most will hear this and think: At that rate, none of the words could possibly be any good. Larson (the original Battlestar Galactica), and Stephenie Meyer ( Twilight). Could it be, finally, because he’s a weirdo Mormon? But so are Orson Scott Card ( Ender’s Game), Glen A. Is it because none of Sanderson’s work has been adapted for the screen? Well, he wrote three of the Wheel of Time books, and an adaptation of that series came out on Amazon Prime in 2021. Is it because he mostly writes fantasy, a-so the snobs sneer-“subliterary” genre? But then, so do J. What makes less sense is why there’s a hole the size of Utah where the man’s literary reputation should be. Which makes sense: Sanderson is extremely Mormon. “Well, we have a piece coming up in LDS Living,” he told me. As far as I can tell, Sanderson, who has been topping bestseller lists for the better part of the 21st century, has not been written about in any depth by any major publication ever. On the other, the ignorance goes far beyond WIRED. Sanderson has millions upon millions of fans all over the planet it doesn’t matter that some losers at a single magazine (even if it is one of the nerdier ones) had never heard of him. This article appears in the June 2023 issue.
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