Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here are your hosts.

John Joseph Adams and David Barr-Kirtley.

Hi, this is Dave. And this is John.

And welcome to episode 77 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Brandon Sanderson,

author of such fantasy novels as Mistborn, The Way of Kings, and Alcatraz and the Evil

Vibrarians.

He was also selected to finish Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time, following

Jordan's death in 2007.

The 14th and final book in the series, A Memory of Light, is out now.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geek Douglas Cohen joins us to discuss Robert E Howard

movie adaptations. All right so let's get to our interview. All right so we're here

with Brandon Sanderson welcome to the show. Hello thanks for having me.

All right so as we're recording this Welcome to the show. Hello, thanks for having me.

All right, so as we're recording this, the release of A Memory of Light is just days away.

So what will you be doing on the day that the book comes out?

Well, I'll probably be sleeping at first because of the night four I'll be doing a midnight

release party and those tend to go pretty late.

And then I will be flying, I believe in Minneapolis is the first stop and I will be doing a signing

there that evening. Well so tell us about the midnight release party. For quite a

while now my fans have wanted me to do midnight releases and so what we do is we pick a bookstore

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