There is a lot more depth than meets the eye, and I have a feeling that Legion is a brief introduction to what should be an interesting and entertaining series. The novella format keeps the pace moving, and all too quickly we reach the end, hoping for more. The conclusion is left clouded in ambiguity, and Sanderson suggests that the big questions may be beyond our ability to resolve. Complications pile on to expand the divergence from normality (“Your hallucination has hallucinations”) even as mainstream philosophical issues are addressed in an Alice’s Tea Party atmosphere. The engaging if madcap events of this outré narrative unobtrusively prompt the reader to reflect on the nature of reality. Its inventor, Balubal Razon, has stolen it to photograph the resurrected Jesus. are all quite mad.” Sanderson (the Mistborn series) sends them all to Jerusalem on a mission to retrieve a camera that may be able to photograph past events.
Narrator Stephen Leeds, also known as “Master Legion,” alternately describes himself as schizophrenic and asserts his own sanity, even though his “hallucinations. Reality and illusion, sanity and insanity, are but subjective labels in this thought-provoking foray into a world where visions abound like the biblical demons the title evokes. This is an experimental and manual process on our end, so it will take us a few days to get back to you.
Email your hardcover receipt to ebooks at brandonsanderson dot com, or email a photo of yourself holding the book. What he discovers may upend the foundation of three major world religions-and, perhaps, give him a vital clue into the true nature of his aspects.īrandon will send a free copy of this ebook to anyone who purchased the Subterranean Press hardcover. When a company hires him to recover stolen property-a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past-Stephen finds himself in an adventure crossing oceans and fighting terrorists. His brain is getting a little crowded, however, and the aspects have a tendency of taking on lives of their own. He uses them to solve problems…for a price. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people-Stephen calls them aspects-to hold and manifest the information. It's his hallucinations who are mad.Ī genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. A novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Legion is a fast-paced, witty, and supremely fun thriller with a psychological bent.
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