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Chapters (102)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. The Selish System
  7. The Emperor’s Soul
  8. Prologue
  9. Day Two
  10. Day Three
  11. Day Five
  12. Day Twelve
  13. Day Seventeen
  14. Day Thirty
  15. Day Forty-Two
  16. Day Fifty-Eight
  17. Day Fifty-Nine
  18. Day Seventy
  19. Day Seventy-Six
  20. Day Eighty-Five
  21. Day Ninety-Seven
  22. Day Ninety-Eight
  23. Epilogue: Day One Hundred and One
  24. Postscript
  25. The Hope of Elantris
  26. Postscript
  27. The Scadrian System
  28. The Eleventh Metal
  29. Postscript
  30. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes Twenty-Eight Through Thirty
  31. Postscript
  32. Mistborn: Secret History
  33. Part One: Empire
  34. Chapter 1
  35. Chapter 2
  36. Part Two: Well
  37. Chapter 1
  38. Chapter 2
  39. Chapter 3
  40. Chapter 4
  41. Part Three: Spirit
  42. Chapter 1
  43. Chapter 2
  44. Chapter 3
  45. Part Four: Journey
  46. Chapter 1
  47. Chapter 2
  48. Chapter 3
  49. Chapter 4
  50. Part Five: Ire
  51. Chapter 1
  52. Chapter 2
  53. Chapter 3
  54. Part Six: Hero
  55. Chapter 1
  56. Chapter 2
  57. Chapter 3
  58. Chapter 4
  59. Chapter 5
  60. Chapter 6
  61. Chapter 7
  62. Chapter 8
  63. Chapter 9
  64. Epilogue
  65. Postscript
  66. The Taldain System
  67. White Sand
  68. Prologue
  69. Chapter One
  70. Postscript
  71. The Threnodite System
  72. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
  73. Postscript
  74. The Drominad System
  75. Sixth of the Dusk
  76. Postscript
  77. The Rosharan System
  78. Edgedancer
  79. Chapter 1
  80. Chapter 2
  81. Chapter 3
  82. Chapter 4
  83. Chapter 5
  84. Chapter 6
  85. Chapter 7
  86. Chapter 8
  87. Chapter 9
  88. Chapter 10
  89. Chapter 11
  90. Chapter 12
  91. Chapter 13
  92. Chapter 14
  93. Chapter 15
  94. Chapter 16
  95. Chapter 17
  96. Chapter 18
  97. Chapter 19
  98. Chapter 20
  99. Postscript
  100. By Brandon Sanderson
  101. About the Author
  102. Newsletter Sign-up

Part of my love of writing Lift has to do with the way I get to slip character growth and meaningful moments into otherwise odd or silly-sounding phrases. Such as the fact that in the novelette from Words of Radiance she says she’s been ten for three years (as a joke) can be foreshadowing with a laugh, which then develops into the fact that she actually thinks her aging stopped at ten. (And has good reason to think that.)

This isn’t the sort of thing you can do as a writer with most characters.

I also used this story as an opportunity to show off the Tashikki people, who (not having any major viewpoint characters) were likely not going to get any major development in the main series.

The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)

By Brandon Sanderson

BY BRANDON SANDERSON

THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE

The Way of Kings

Words of Radiance

THE MISTBORN SAGA

THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY

Mistborn

The Well of Ascension

The Hero of Ages

THE WAX AND WAYNE SERIES

The Alloy of Law

Shadows of Self

The Bands of Mourning

Elantris

Warbreaker

The Rithmatist

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

ALCATRAZ VS. THE EVIL LIBRARIANS

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

The Scrivener’s Bones

The Knights of Crystallia

The Shattered Lens

The Dark Talent

THE RECKONERS

Steelheart

Firefight

Calamity

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn® trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning; The Stormlight Archive novels The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance; and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart. In 2013, he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor’s Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® sequence. For behind-the-scenes information on all of Brandon Sanderson’s books, visit brandonsanderson.com, or sign up for email updates here or here.

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* Indeed, this was the outcome of Jak’s brave—perhaps foolhardy—plan. See episode twenty-six. At this point, Jak had been “king” of the koloss for three episodes, and had survived the latest of challenges to his authority, getting closer to the secrets they held regarding the Survivor’s Treasure.