A Grain of Sanderson

Today we read all of The Reckoners Book 2: Firefight, one of the best books we've read from Sanderson and our favorite episode we've recorded this year. 
Next time we're reading Shadows of Self, which will release either the 15th or the 22nd. 
Content warnings for this episode: aliens, apathy, assisted suicide, beheadings, being unhoused, betrayal, bleeding, bombs, bullying, cancer, Christianity, conspiracies, corpses, corruption, crushing violence, death, devils/Lucifer, drowning, faith, fire, force fields, gang violence, god, guns and gun violence, hospitalization, housefires, illusion magic, imprisonment, insanity, Jonestown Massacre, lying, many worlds theory, mental illness, mind control, misogyny, model minorities, murder, neglect, nuclear weapons, oligarchy, palliative care, paralell universes, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, sexualization, sin, spousal violence, stabbing, stereotypes, submarines, suicide, supervillains, telekinesis, torture, undeath, wounds 
References:
Judge Judy
Fullmetal Alchemist - Hiromu Arakawa
Daemons of the Shadow Realm - Hiromu Arakawa
Bioshock - 2K
Bioshock Infinite - 2K
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow - Alan Moore
The Autobiography of Mark Twain 
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We're back with two more Sanderson short stories, Allomancer Jak & Legion: Skin Deep!
Next episode we're reading all of Firefight! Episode airs: September 1 2026
Content warnings for this episode:  ableism, assassination, atheism, betrayal, bleeding, body modification, cancer, Catholicism, Christianity, classism, death, DID, discussion of mental health, discussion of sexuality, existentialism, firearms, genetic mutation, germaphobia, germs, Greek Orthodoxy, guns, hallucinations, haunting, hostile corporate takeovers, imprisonment, imprisonment, infinity, insanity, kidnapping, military, mind control, minstrel shows, misogyny, Mormonism, murder, mutation, navy seals, Osama Bin Laden, passing, racism, race melodrama, religious conversion, religious extremism, schizophrenia, self harm, settler colonialism, staph bacteria, therapy, threat of torture, tokenism, viruses, wounds and infection
References
Coraline
Batman - DC Comics
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Octoroon -  Dion Boucicault
Crash Course Video expanding on this play and it's position in the history of US Theater 
V.E. Schwab 
Lampshading - OSP
Bathos - OSP
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This time around we read all of Sixth of the Dusk, Dreamer, and Way of Kings Prime!
Next episode we're reading Legion: Skin Deep & Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania! Episode airs: August 18 2026

Huge thanks to Eamonn Tee for joining us this episode for a discussion on Sixth of the Dusk!
Eamonn’s Linktree

Eamonn’s Short Story Innsmouth

Eamonn’s Avatar Article
Content warnings for this episode: ableism, alien invasion, animal abuse/death, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, corpses, death, death of a parent, decay, demonic possession, genocide, insanity, insects, knives, maiming, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, police violence, racism, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, slavery, stabbing, undeath, violent crime, war, wounds and infection  
Graham's audio has some issues until maybe 20 minutes in but gets resolved, apologies. 
References Eamonn Section
Turncoat - Tihema Baker
The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Full Fathom Five: A Novel of the Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

Kurangaituku - Whiti Hereaka
Kawai - Monty Soutar

References
Dredge - Black Salt Games
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Bethesda
Star Trek - Gene Roddenberry
Avatar dir by James Cameron
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The game Jack mentions but couldn’t name is called The Shapeshifting Detective
Watch Dogs Series - Ubisoft
Austin Walker’s article about Watch Dogs and Shadow of Mordor 
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Many Apologies for this being so long overdue. I promise the next few will come out sooner. Due to a file corruption issue, The Episodes for Shadows for Silence Through the Forests of Hell and Mitosis have been lost. I'm going to try restore as much as is salvageable from that episode before the end of the year, but at least one full audiotrack will be missing. 
Join us next time for Dreamer, Sixth of the Dusk (featuring a special guest), and Way of Kings Prime!
Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, espionage, exsanguination, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, knives, maiming, marital rape, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, secret societies, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sex work, slavery, slave races, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, surgery, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection
Other Things Mentioned
Netflix's Stranger Things
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
Pluribus 

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Happy New Year! I am so sorry this episode is so late. 
Next episode, about Mitosis and Shadows for Silence Through the Forests of Hell will be out much, much sooner. 
Content warnings for this episode: beheadings, being unhoused, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, Christianity, conspiracies, corpses, corruption, death, gang violence, guns and gun violence, illusion magic, imprisonment, insanity, lying, mental illness, mind control, misogyny, murder, neglect, nuclear weapons, oligarchy, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, sexualization, stabbing, stereotypes, suicide, supervillains, torture, undeath, wounds
Other media
Brandon Sanderson reviews art of his characters
Injustice
All Star Superman 
Superman Red Son
Death of Superman
Batman vs Superman 
The Reign of the Supermen
Invincible 
The Boys 
Absolute Universe

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