Legion
| Legion | |
|---|---|
| Released | September 11, 2012 |
| Publisher | Dragonsteel Entertainment |
Legion is a novella written by Brandon Sanderson. Released in September 2012, as e-book and hardcover from Subterranean Press.
Description
The book story is a modern-day thriller/mystery with some science fiction undertones.
“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.”—Amazon.com blurb
Speculation
Tie to the Cosmere?: See Quote #13 on this page (http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=675#10). Is it possible that this has a tie to the discussion in Legion about why the camera worked even though the world was in a different location than when the event actually occurred? Is it possible that Legion--and thereby the earth--has some sort of story tie to the Cosmere? That seems unlikely, but perhaps Brandon Sanderson is extending some of those same ideas to this 'earth-based' story (that the 'magic' behind the camera is bound by spiritual not physical properties and thereby can capture events that happened in different physical space, but in the same 'spiritual' space).