The Sunlit Man by Brandon SandersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The fourth and final Secret Project of the Year of Sanderson is the most clearly Cosmere connected of them all, with a Worldhopper protagonist who views everything around him in terms of Rosharan culture first...and it's definitely appropriate when he's on a planet in the Cosmere that, like Roshar, is uniquely difficult to habitate. Unlike Roshar, where the people have to hunker down against highstorms that ravage the continent regularly, this is a rotating but tidally locked world where the people must move their entire civilization to ensure the Investiture of the sun doesn't fry them, and the nearly freezing night doesn't kill them either. Sanderson compares this one to Mad Max and neo-westerns, but there's also just a bit of Mortal Engines in the DNA of this book as well, and it's as great a gift to his loyal readership as we could ever have expected. Now to wait for the long-awaited return to Roshar in Knights of Wind and Truth... - but first, it's just come to my attention that there's a new Horneater novella, centered on Rock, in the works as well...
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