Difference between revisions of "The Silence Divine"

'''''The Silence Divine''''' is an unpublished [[cosmere]] work by [[Brandon Sanderson]].{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson|State of the Sanderson|date=Jul 24, 2013}} It was originally planned to be a standalone novel. However, Brandon has since downgraded it to a novella a la ''[[The Emperor's Soul]]''. It will be renamed.{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson: December 2014|date=2014-12-18}} As of January 26, 2018 it might possibly be trunked. Brandon says about the premise: "What if viruses and bacteria evolved to give people magical talents when you caught the disease. This idea that a bacteria doesn’t actually want to kill you, or a virus doesn’t want to kill you. It wants you to live and spread it. You getting sick is a side effect. What if the side effect is, you got the common cold, all the sniffles and everything, but you could fly as long as you had the common cold? What would that do to society? What happens when someone invents penicillin and can wipe out half of these magical talents? What happens if people start catching a disease that makes everything they touch start on fire?

Brandon wrote, and read, a few test scenes while touring for ''[[Words of Radiance]]''.{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson: December 2014|date=2014-12-18}}