Title: Legion
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Year: 2012
88 pages
Very disappointing. The problem isn't the basic idea, which is fun and interesting to explore. It's that this isn't a novella. It isn't even a long short story. Rather, it reads like an excerpt of a longer work. Despite the fun ideas, there turns out to be no plot. Oh, there's action--things happen, and they're engaging. Then Sanderson just stops. I had to double-check online to make sure I didn't have a defective copy. When I say there's no plot, I mean that the action doesn't resolve. This is not a post-modern narrative that plays with form, but a conventional story that appeals to the reader, has what appears to be rising action and character development, then ends with not even a whimper. If this is an excerpt, market it as such. If it's supposed to be a novella, somebody needs to sit Sanderson down and explain what a "novella" is.
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