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"“This is my dream,” Brandon Sanderson says.
We’re 30 feet beneath the surface of northern Utah, in a room that feels like a
cross between a five-star hotel lobby and a Bond villain’s secret base. My ears
popped on the way down. Sanderson points to the grand piano, the shelves filled
with ammonite fossils, the high walls covered in wood and damask paneling, and
his pièce de résistance: a cylindrical aquarium swirling with saltwater fish.
“George R. R. Martin bought an old movie theater. Jim Butcher bought a LARPing
castle,” he says. “I built an underground supervillain lair.”
This is where Sanderson writes bestselling fantasy and science fiction novels.
Many of them take place in an interconnected series of worlds called the
Cosmere, his ink-and-paper equivalent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But
instead of superheroes defending Earth, Sanderson’s warriors, thieves,
scholars, and royals are spread across a richly detailed system of planets,
from the ash-covered cities of Scadrial to the shattered plains of Roshar—a
landscape directly inspired by the sandstone buttes and slot canyons of
southeastern Utah.
It all started 25 years ago when Sanderson, a practicing Mormon, was an
undergraduate student at Brigham Young University just 15 miles away in Provo.
He took a part-time job working night shifts at the front desk of a nearby
hotel, where he could write between midnight and 5:00 AM.
Over the next five years, while working at the hotel during and after his
undergraduate years at BYU, he wrote 12 full-length novels that were all
rejected by publishers. But one day in 2003, Moshe Feder, an editor at the Tor
Books subsidiary of the publishing house Macmillan, discovered one of his
manuscripts in the slush pile—and the fate of the Cosmere was sealed."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
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