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Shadows of Self

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Prologue
Part One
Chapters 1-4
Part Two
Chapters 5-21
Part Three
Chapters 22-26
Epilogue
Ars Arcanum
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 Mistborn*
#5 of 7
Mistborn*     See series as if on a bookshelf
Fantasy series written by Brandon Sanderson.

1) The Final Empire
2) The Well of Ascension
3) The Hero of Ages
4) The Alloy of Law
5) Shadows of Self
6) The Bands of Mourning
7) The Lost Metal

 Wax and Wayne
#2 of 3
Wax and Wayne     See series as if on a bookshelf
A sub-series of the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson.  This series takes place about 300 years after the first trilogy.

1) The Alloy of Law
2) Shadows of Self
3) The Bands of Mourning
Copyright © 2015 by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC
FOR MOSHE FEDER
Who took a chance on me
Waxillium Ladrian, lawman for hire, swung off his horse and turned to face the saloon.

May contain spoilers
Finally, he turned to the side, rested his head on her shoulder, and wept.
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
Wax nodded, absently moving a coin across his knuckles as he walked. He seemed to have lost his guns somewhere. Had he bummed some coins off Marasi? It never was fair. When Wayne borrowed coins off folks, he got yelled at. He did forget to ask sometimes, but he always offered a good trade.

As they penetrated deeper into the Breakouts, Wayne lagged behind the other two. Need a good hat … he thought. The hat was important.

So he listened for some coughing.

Ah…

He found the chap nestled up beside a doorway, a ratty blanket draped over his knees. You could always find his type in a slum. Old, clinging to life like a man on a ledge, his lungs half full with various unsavory fluids. The old man hacked into a glove-wrapped hand as Wayne settled down on the steps beside him.

"What, now," the man said. "Who are you?"

"What, now," Wayne repeated. "Who are you?"

"I'm nobody," the man said, then spat to the side. "Dirty outer. I ain't done nothing."

"I'm nobody," Wayne repeated, taking his flask from the pocket of his duster. "Dirty outer. I ain't done nothing."

Good accent, that was. Real mumbly, a classic vintage, wrapped in a blanket of history. Closing his eyes and listening, Wayne thought he could imagine what people sounded like years ago. He held out the flask of whiskey.

"You trying to poison me?" the man asked. He clipped off words, left out half the sounds.

"You trying to poison me?" Wayne repeated, working his jaw as if his mouth were full of bits of rock he kept trying to chew. Some northern fields mix in this one, for sure. He opened his eyes and tipped the whiskey at the man, who smelled it, then took a sip. Then a swig. Then a gulp.

"So," the man asked, "you an idiot? I've a son that's an idiot. The real kind, that was born that way. Well, you seem all right anyway."

"Well, you seem all right anyway," Wayne said, standing up. He reached over to take the man's old cotton cap off his head, then gestured toward the whiskey flask.

"In trade?" the man asked. "Boy, you are an idiot."

Wayne pulled on the cap. "Could you say another word that starts with 'h' for me?"

 

Added: 15-Nov-2019
Last Updated: 16-Oct-2024

Quotes

This coin is worth more than the others because people think it is. They expect it to be. The most important things in the world are worth only what people will pay for them. If you can raise someone’s expectation… if you can make them need something… that is the source of wealth. Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.

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 06-Oct-2015
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
06-Oct-2015
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$14.99
Pages*:
384
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   29 Dec 2019 - 15 Jan 2020
Internal ID:
2033
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-466-86266-1
ISBN-13:
978-1-466-86266-1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Moshe Feder - Editor
Chris McGrath  - Cover Artist
Ben McSweeney - Illustrator
Isaac Stewart - Illustrator
From amazon.com:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

When family obligations forced Waxillium Ladrian to forsake the frontier lands and return to the metropolis of his birth to take his place as head of a noble House, he little imagined that the crime-fighting skills acquired during twenty years in the dusty plains would be just as applicable in the big city. He soon learned that there too, just being a talented Twinborn — one who can use both Allomancy and Feruchemy, the dominant magical modes on Scadrial — would not suffice.

This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society will now face its first test by terrorism and assassination, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax, his eccentric sidekick Wayne, and brilliant, beautiful young Marasi, now officially part of the constabulary, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife can stop Scadrial’s progress in its tracks.
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06-Oct-2015
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book

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Author(s)

 Brandon Sanderson
Birth: 19 Dec 1975 Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Notes:
From Rythm of War (Kindle edition):

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, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War; and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart for young adults and the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series for middle-grade readers. 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.

Awards

2015Good ReadsBest Fantasy Nominee
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