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Mitosis Hardcover – October 23, 2014

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson comes "Mitosis," a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: The Reckoners series, exclusively available in the digital format. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.

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Brandon Sanderson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Steelheart and Firefight, the first two books in the Reckoners series, and of the internationally bestselling books in the Stormlight Archive and the Mistborn series, and he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series. His books have been published in more than twenty-five languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Calamity is the third book in the Reckoners series. Brandon lives and writes in Utah.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz (October 23, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1473209358
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1473209350
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.87 x 0.47 x 5.39 inches
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I’m Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.

Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.

November 2022 saw the release of The Lost Metal, the seventh volume in the Mistborn saga, and the final volume of the Mistborn Era Two featuring Wax & Wayne. The third era of Mistborn is slated to be written after the first arc of the Stormlight Archive wraps up.

In November 2020 we saw the release of Rhythm of War—the fourth massive book in the New York Times #1 bestselling Stormlight Archive series that began with The Way of Kings—and Dawnshard (book 3.5), a novella set in the same world that bridges the gaps between the main releases. This series is my love letter to the epic fantasy genre, and it’s the type of story I always dreamed epic fantasy could be. The fifth volume, Wind and Truth, is set for release in fall 2024.

Most readers have noticed that my adult fantasy novels are in a connected universe called the Cosmere. This includes The Stormlight Archive, both Mistborn series, Elantris, Warbreaker, and various novellas available on Amazon, including The Emperor’s Soul, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. In November 2016 all of the existing Cosmere short fiction was released in one volume called Arcanum Unbounded. If you’ve read all of my adult fantasy novels and want to see some behind-the-scenes information, that collection is a must-read.

I also have three YA series: The Rithmatist (currently at one book), The Reckoners (a trilogy beginning with Steelheart), and Skyward. For young readers I also have my humorous series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, which had its final book, Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, come out in 2022. Many of my adult readers enjoy all of those books as well, and many of my YA readers enjoy my adult books, usually starting with Mistborn.

Additionally, I have a few other novellas that are more on the thriller/sci-fi side. These include the Legion series, as well as Perfect State and Snapshot. There’s a lot of material to go around!

Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings.

I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes.

Sample chapters from all of my books are available at brandonsanderson.com—and check out the rest of my site for chapter-by-chapter annotations, deleted scenes, and more.

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madhatter
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth it
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
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Another clever piece of action and suspense by one of the very best! Sanderson sure does know how to keep one reveted
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Baron Don
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story but Short Length Leads to Questions Regarding Value
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2015
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I checked this out as I was excited for the release of book 2, Firefight. It's a nice, short 'Reckoners' story from Sanderson who really takes advantage of the assumption that readers have already consumed Steelheart (Book 1). That enabled him to not provide much background or color on any of the characters, locations or intricacies of the world he built. Saves a lot of time and words.

Overall, it was entertaining, but it's really short. To give some context, I was able to finish this, with time to spare, on my 30 min train ride to work (of course slower readers might take some more time). When you can buy full books (granted not always the best ones) for a similar price on Amazon, you really question the value, especially when it seems that visitors to Sanderson's blog can get longer 'free sample' chapters to his full-length books than this entire story.
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Knosh
5.0 out of 5 stars Great novella
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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Love the reckoners series. Sanderson is such a good story teller and this short story doesn't disappoint. Great addition to the story!
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3.0 out of 5 stars the Reckoners is about a renegade group that brings down super powered individuals called epics
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2015
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(Contains spoilers for Steelheart).

One of the few series' outside of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe, the Reckoners is about a renegade group that brings down super powered individuals called epics. Mitosis takes place shortly after the events in Steelheart, and acts as a lead in to its sequel Firefight. While this can be an entertaining story, it really doesn't really feel special in any sort of capacity, and instead comes off as a decent, but flawed, filler in between Reckoner's books.

Shortly after David and the rest of the Reckoners defeat Steelheart, another high powered epic named Mitosis heads to Newcago, the city formerly known as Chicago. Mitosis has the ability to make tons of clones of himself, and he can't be killed until every single clone is killed. It's up to David and the Reckoners to stop Mitosis and prevent Newcago (formerly Chicago) from falling into the hands of another epic.

I decided to pick this short-story up after a number of references to its titular character in the early goings of my reading of Firefight. I was hoping this would be some what relevant to the sequel, but it's really a story that didn't need to happen. It feels like a rough draft for the start of Firefight that didn't quite work out right. In fact Firefight's intro achieves the same results as the story of Mitosis does: the heroes are minding their own business when another epic shows up in town leading to a decision that needs to be made about where to next take the fight against epics. If this short story has any larger implications for the series, it is in discussing how epic weaknesses are in someway related to fear.

After using Chicago as the setting for his last book, Sanderson never really went into too much detail about the city or certain cultural aspects of living there. That aspect kind of disappointed me, living in Chicago I was kind of hoping to see his take on the city. There's some make up time for that in Mitosis with a lengthy opening about eating Chicago style hot-dogs. You don't put ketchup on those, and for anyone who's come to Chicago and tried, you'll probably have an experience similar to Abraham's.

There are parodies of rock music, namely Metallica albums and other forms of heavy metal and terribly written lyrics. I can't help but relate to Mitosis as he laments about how a lot of rock music has denigrated into using four chords to structure a rehashed writing of the same song over and over again.

Despite these nuances, which I appreciated, I never fully got into the story. The ending kind of resembles the ending of Mars Attacks, and that was an ending I was never really fond of. The story as a whole resembles the beginning of Firefight too much. Fans of the Reckoners may enjoy this, and for the most part I did, but this is not Sanderson's strongest effort, nor is it essential to the Reckoners series.
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Robin Snyder
4.0 out of 5 stars Quick and Fun with a lot of Action
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014
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This is a super short novella involving how the city has changed after the ending of Steelheart. It is not necessary to read for the next Novel but it probably just ~30 minutes of reading time if you have some time to kill.

The Good: We get a glimpse of how the people in the city are changing and a few bad metaphors from David.

“I like it. The colors are different. Not like the city was before Calamity, but also a big change from how it was under Steelheart. They make the city look like a big … chessboard. Um, one painted a lot of colors.”
“Or perhaps a quilt?” Abraham asked, sounding amused.
“Sure, I suppose. If you want to use a boring metaphor.”
A quilt. Why hadn’t I thought of that?

Most of the story is a long action sequence against an epic that comes to the city looking for the Reckoners. He has some interesting traits and might be a clue to how to discover the Epic’s weaknesses.

I liked seeing the lead into where the next book will pick up.

The Bad: Well really there isn’t much bad except that I wanted more, but I always want to read more in any Sanderson story. And my Reckoner future boyfriend Cody wasn’t in this one I missed him.
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Arindam Goswami
5.0 out of 5 stars It's Sanderson. What's not to like?
Reviewed in India on November 5, 2023
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Just go for it. You will not regret it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Histórico curta
Reviewed in Spain on August 9, 2023
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Livro pequeno que faz a ligação entre o Steelheart e o Firefight, lê-se bem e rápido. Recomendo
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5.0 out of 5 stars Entretenido
Reviewed in Mexico on March 21, 2019
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Si temustonsteelhart esta es una historia corta q debes leer, una pequeña aventura entre steelhart y firefight
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Girlgeek
5.0 out of 5 stars Great little read!!
Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2019
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I love this author!!! This is a great piece to read if you are reading the Reckoners series!!! Highly recommend it!
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Mariana
5.0 out of 5 stars Mitosis: cutinho mas legal.
Reviewed in Brazil on January 4, 2019
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como diz no título, este ebook é muuito curto, acaba num piscar de olhos. Porém, a narrativa, os personagens e o enredo são peças chave nesse ebook. Li porque ainda não tinha Tormenta de Fogo e queria matar a saudade desse universo e foi uma ótima escolha. Leitura agradável mesmo em inglês!
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