Legion

Brandon Sanderson

Sep 2012 · Legion Book 1 · Sold by Dragonsteel, LLC

About this ebook

Now also available in the complete collection Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds.

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.

Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It’s his hallucinations who are mad.

A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people—Stephen calls them aspects—to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems…for a price.

His brain is getting a little crowded, however, and the aspects have a tendency of taking on lives of their own. 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. 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.

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A note from the publisher: Brandon will send a free copy of this ebook to anyone who purchased the Subterranean Press hardcover. See the title page in the ebook preview for details.

Ratings and reviews

Brandon always seems to have some kind of twist or reveal in his works that catches me off guard and forces me to see the whole narrative in a new light. This novella has a little bit of that. It also has a little bit of action. But it excels at mystery, intrigue, wit, and humor. I found myself laughing out loud while reading this on the treadmill at the gym. People must have assumed I was the one having hallucinations. The writing conventions Brandon uses truly show him for the endearing author he's become

Not my style, Sanderson is such a great author that he captivated me on a genre that I don't naturally enjoy. I tend to like the big fantasy epic series, but this was fun.

This was fun, but not meant to be on the same level as Sanderson's other work. Don't expect a masterpiece. It was an interesting idea for a novel though.

About the author

Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. By junior high he had lost interest in the novels suggested to him, and he never cracked a book if he could help it. Then an eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon was finishing his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. In 2005 Brandon held his first published novel, Elantris, in his hands. Tor also published four books in Brandon’s Mistborn series, along with Warbreaker and then The Way of Kings, the first in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive; the second volume, Words of Radiance, is a March 2014 release. Four books in his middle-grade Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series were released by Scholastic. Brandon was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; the final book, A Memory of Light, was released in 2013. That year also marked the releases of YA novels The Rithmatist from Tor and Steelheart from Delacorte. Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He also hosts the Hugo Award-winning writing advice show Writing Excuses with Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells.