1/28/2024 0 Comments Steelheart synopsis![]() While I had a couple of niggles, they were easily overlooked based on the strength of the pacing and streamlined prose. It’s a good novel, with an interesting hook, but it is by no means perfect. As it turns out, Steelheart is a fun, quick-paced super-hero novel. As a big fan of comic books and super-heroes, I was very intrigued to see what Brandon Sanderson – best known for his magic-heavy, epic high fantasy tomes – would come up with. I’m going to keep this review pretty short. For years, like the Reckoners, David’s been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. And to rule man you must crush his wills.Īnd David wants in. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. The awed public started calling them Epics.īut Epics are no friend of man. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. Perfect for any fan of Sanderson’s writing. The UK hardcover edition also includes an excerpt from Firefight and also some character sketches. UPDATE: When I first wrote this, Gollancz had yet to announce the UK cover art, which I have now included below. ![]() Short, but well-worth reading to hold you over until the release of Firefight. The man can certainly write, and I intend to get more of his novels read by the end of this year. If you are familiar with Sanderson’s writing – be it The Way of Kings or his Mistborn series – then you are sure to know what to expect: brisk, engaging and professional storytelling. That is all I shall say on the specific plot of this story. The story moves quickly, and there is a rather nifty homage (perhaps) to Agent Smith from second and third The Matrix movies. Mitosis deals with a single powered individual: Mitosis. Steelheart the novel was the story of a fight against this tyranny, spear-headed by an insurgent group known as the Reckoners and their new ‘recruit’, who is a bit of a geek, and has been cataloguing the powered dictators and criminals as a means to learn of their weaknesses. In Chicago, Steelheart reigned supreme with a coterie of other powereds. Unlike in the super-hero comic books of Marvel, DC, et al, the power has very much gone to most of these powered individuals’ heads, and they started using them for their own ends. ![]() Nevertheless, what you need to know (for both the novel and Mitosis) is that in this reality, super-heroes exist – something happened that bestowed upon a small percentage of the global population special powers. I’m not going to include an official synopsis, as that will give away the ending of Steelheart. I rather enjoyed the novel (which was the first of the author’s that I’ve read), and when I stumbled across this I was very happy to be able to dive back into the world he’s created. Sanderson self-published this short story, set in the same world as his first super-hero novel, Steelheart. The winner will be notified on Monday morning.Ī good short story stop-gap between Steelheart and FirefightĮpics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back. I’m really looking forward to reading Firefight.Īll you have to do to be in with a chance of winning this action-packed bundle is… leave a comment or email me, and I’ll pick the winner at random on Sunday night. I enjoyed Steelheart, and also the short story set between the two novels, Mitosis. For years, like the Reckoners, David’s been studying, and planning – and he has something they need. He wants Steelheart – the Epic who is said to be invincible. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.Īnd David wants in. Nobody fights the Epics… nobody but the Reckoners. And to rule man you must crush his wills. The awed public started calling them Epics. (Sorry to those of you not from the UK… I’ll try to organise an international giveaway ASAP.) Not sure what the series is about? Well, here’s the synopsis for Steelheart: Those lovely folks at Gollancz have provided a copy of Brandon Sanderson‘s Steelheart and Firefight for me to give away to one lucky reader in the UK.
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