The Sanderlanche Podcast

We're back for the next portion of Shai's imprisonment this week. Her time is almost half gone by the end of this section, and her prospects for escape or even success are looking a bit bleak. Find out what the crew thinks is going to happen to her on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

This is the first of 4 episodes covering the novella, The Emperor's Soul. Our crew is excited to be starting something new again and is immediately drawn into Shai's story. What twist and turns await them in this tale of art and intrigue? Who knows ... other than me ... and I guess most of you. Lots of people know is basically what I'm saying, but Joe, Dac and Jaymee don't, and that's what makes i...

This week we're kind of wrapping up the whole Elantris thing by reading one short story and then a few other tidbits, all to give us more of an idea about what is going on on Sel. Dead god? Sentient planet? Sexy Drifter? The fun never stops on Sel, at least that's the idea on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

And we're finishing Elantris in this episode. Final chapters and final thoughts on this, Brandon's first published novel. Find out what the crew thinks overall on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

Things really took a turn for the worse in these chapters. It's been exactly a day since Roial died in the previous set of chapters, and if you thought that was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet, my kayana sules. If something bad could happen, it's happening here. So strap in and join the crew as we sift through the charred remains of all the hopes and dreams we very briefly cherished for the happin...

The magic is back! The crew is very excited as Raoden finally finds the solution to the puzzle of how to fix AonDor. Then things really start to ramp up. People die. Identities are revealed. Things. Are. Happening. It looks like it we have firmly entered the Sanderlanche at this point. The only thing left to do is hold on for dear life on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

Seven chapters this week, but surprisingly little actually happening it seems like. Some tantalizing possibilities arise regarding the true cause behind the Reod. So our crew gets a chance to revisit that question, the question the book started with, actually. Why did Elantris fall? And Hrathen converts a nation. It's just that easy. Don't know what all the fuss has been about this whole book, rea...

Six chapters this week, and some interesting stuff happening. Sarene is thrown into Elantris, and it's generating a lot of theories among our crew about what direction this is all going to end up going. We're approaching the final stretch here, only 4 episodes left in this book after this one. So let's take this ride together on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

The last episode we recorded for a while, but for you all there should only be one week, next week, with no new episode. The King is dead, long live the - wait, who's going to be king now? Join us as we try to figure out where the heck any of this is going. Hrathen was an Elantrian and then he wasn't. Sarene is engaged. Again. And Raoden is going to ... explode or something? Who knows. Certainly n...

Six chapters this time around, and some serious stuff happening for the crew to sink their teeth into. What exactly does this poison do that Hrathen has taken? What will the extended consequences of his entrance into Elantris be? What will be the fallout from Sarene and her confrontation with Iadon? So many things happening here, and all of it just raises further questions, as Hermes would say. Se...

I have to apologize for this one, all. The fates were against us. Joe had to skip the episode, and then my computer died in the middle of recording the intro. So I recorded the rest from my phone, and it doesn't sound amazing. I did what I could in the edit, but it wasn't much. Interesting chapters, fun discussion, it's just not up to our usual audio quality, and I'm sorry about that. Enjoy Dac an...

Back to 3 chapters this week, and everyone is very interested to see our three separate stories begin colliding a bit. We've reached about the halfway point this book, and everyone can sense that things are really starting to fall into place. The final gang leader is revealed, and Sarene reveals herself to Iadon (not like that). All this and Old Man Joe on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

Our last two-chapter chunk for this book. The crew is outraged by Dilaf and his unauthorized attempt to burn an Elantrian. Then they're amused by our meeting with Hrathen's good buddy, Forton the potion maker. He's a heretic, a hypocrite, and loves doing drugs, a triple threat, really. After that Raoden makes a discovery about AonDor that has the crew optimistic that maybe some magic will show up...

Jaymee is back this week! And we're so excited about it that I think we went a little crazy on this episode. It's a long one. Everyone thinks that Raoden is maybe having too easy a time of it as he converts his second gang in these chapters. At the same time out crew is very interested in all the character developing Sarene gets in her section. Finally, we're confronted with the age-old (ok, maybe...

Sarene attends a party in these chapters, and the Hrathen takes a walk. It's more fascinating than it sounds. Lots of little tidbits get dropped in these chapters that our crew wants to know more about. Sarene is going to teach the women how to fence? The Fjorden monasteries train secret assassins? Zapp Brannigan works for Iadon? And then it devolves into a mixture of references to DBZ and DBZ abr...

Hrathen is preaching and Raoden is on a bit of an adventure in these chapters. Meanwhile, the Sanderlanche crew is excited by how much information is being revealed. Some predigments are panning out and others have been shattered on the unforgiving shores of the plot. Beyond that, this installment is a big one for diversions, distractions, and deviations. Find out what I mean on this week's episod...

Raoden and Sarene chapters only this week, and while something does feel a bit missing, not knowing what Hrathen has been up to this time, Sarene in particular has given the crew plenty to talk about on this episode. Raoden is starting a new gang, and Sarene may be kind of doing the same thing. What does our crew think of the political maneuvering going on in Arelon in these chapters? Good questio...

Dac is back this week as we jump back into Elantris! We're starting to see the outline of a plan from each of our viewpoint characters in these chapters, and it's got the Sanderlanche crew really interested to see where it's all going. On top of that, some interesting revelations come unexpectedly out of a question from a listener's email this week. Everyone is excited to be back in the thick of t...

Well, we ran out of books we've already read on the show, and there's still one week before Dac and Jaymee return. What to do? How about we play a little game. We're opening it up to all of fantasy (though Brandon still makes an appearance or two). Can Joe guess the book from the 1-Star reviews of that book? Find out on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

What is going on in the mind of someone who made their way through 3 large books, describing an epic high fantasy adventure, and hated every minute of it? Find out on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche! (I assume it's some sort of deep self-delusion or possible masochism, but either way, I'm curious)

While Dac and Jaymee are still off livin' dat new baby life, with the no sleep and the crying, oh the crying, Joe and Data continue what they started last week, moving on the The Well of Ascension. What do people think who successfully made it through the first book only to despise book 2 enough to 1-star it? Let's find out together on this week's episode of The Sanderlanche!

Dac and Jaymee are taking a bit of a break after welcoming a beautiful new baby into the world. And, you know, it's Australia, and everything is out to get you there. So they've got to prepare the kid for that. In the meantime, Joe and Data needed to come up with something to keep everyone entertained. For this episode, that's reading 1-star reviews of The Final Empire from Amazon and Goodreads an...

The world of Sel and of Elantris in particular are building up. Our cast is loving Sarene. They're liking Raoden, and they're worried about Hrathen. So, basically, everything is going according to plan. It's way too soon for any solid guesses about where all of this is going, but that doesn't stop our cast from giving it a go and putting their all into predigments for you to be amused and/or shock...

This week we start in on Elantris. Every is pretty pumped to be trying out something new, even if the various fantasy names Brandon came up with do cause some ... consternation? Yeah, sure, that's a word for it. Lots of exciting new stuff to explore in this whole new world, ending with some very deep predigments, considering how little the crew has to go on. Check it out on this week's episode of...

Our time on Scadrial draws to a close this week, at least for now. It's bittersweet for some of the crew. On the one hand, we get to see our old friends again. On the other, Spook is king. Stay tuned after the Secret History discussion, though, for a dramatic reading of The Traveler, an unpublished, never-even-finished short story by Brandon. The Cosmere really begins to open up with possibilities...