Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon SandersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This collection of short shorties and novellas ventures to various locations within Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection contains nine pieces of varying lengths that add to various worldbuilding of several series or introduce new worlds in Sanderson’s shared universe.
Of the nine stories featured in this collection, I had read three already due to being published novellas (The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and Edgedancer), so the other six pieces were my focus in reading this book. While the short “The Hope of Elantris” is a nice additional scene that takes place during the climax of the novel and the prose draft of “White Sand” of the prologue and chapter 1 of Volume One of the graphic novels, these are both the weakest pieces in the collection. The other four are simply fantastic parts of the overall Cosmere from how Kelsier’s crusade began in “The Eleventh Metal”, to a funny pulp adventure in Mistborn’s Second Era with Allomancer Jak, and introduces two new worlds in Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell and Sixth of the Dusk. Also included before the stories for each planetary system are essays about said system written by Kriss of White Sand fame and to one’s overall knowledge of how the Cosmere physically exists.
Overall, Arcanum Unbounded is a very good book for any Brandon Sanderson fan who wants to collect all the stories taking place in this vast universe.
The Emperor’s Soul (5/5)
The Hope of Elantris (3.5/5)
The Eleventh Metal (4/5)
Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltantia, Episodes Twenty-Eight Through Thirty (5/5)
Mistborn: Secret History (3.5/5)
White Sand (3.5/5)
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (4.5/5)
Sixth of the Dusk (4/5)
Edgedancer (5/5)
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