re-upping this thread after being reminded of it by @meh262https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1251548432524808193 …
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Before I just abandoned main stream fantasy and sci fi he seemed like that last author in that world who seemed to still write a good story without the stupidities that crept into everything. But that was only reading his massive novels. No idea about the shorter stuff.
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A more verbose Glen Cook maybe? But not in a late Robert Jordan kind of way.
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I don't even think it's that applicable, may be a 'hard' magic system but they're hidden lore that's being rediscovered in most of his works. Definitely has rules but part of it is the characters figuring them out in universe
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Meaning 3 & 4 apply in that the history and lore of the worlds are being explored, despite it being a 'hard' system with rules on the magic, since the magic is part of the lore.
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Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series is one of the two series currently being published that I pay release day prices for. (The other is Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series.)
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I sorta feel that Sanderson's defining genre is "magic system mechanics" but usually in an interesting way. I think I disagree with your thread in that I usually want my fantasy to be fantastical with boundaries.
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There are exceptions: kung fu movies with wirework is its own genre, but even there, kung fu makes the fighters supernatural and it's a defined thing. Comic book physics is OK in a comic book move/genre.
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