If you are familiar with Sanderson’s writing – be it The Way of Kings or his Mistborn series – then you are sure to know what to expect: brisk, engaging and professional storytelling. That is all I shall say on the specific plot of this story. The story moves quickly, and there is a rather nifty homage (perhaps) to Agent Smith from second and third The Matrix movies. Mitosis deals with a single powered individual: Mitosis. Steelheart the novel was the story of a fight against this tyranny, spear-headed by an insurgent group known as the Reckoners and their new ‘recruit’, who is a bit of a geek, and has been cataloguing the powered dictators and criminals as a means to learn of their weaknesses. In Chicago, Steelheart reigned supreme with a coterie of other powereds. Unlike in the super-hero comic books of Marvel, DC, et al, the power has very much gone to most of these powered individuals’ heads, and they started using them for their own ends. Nevertheless, what you need to know (for both the novel and Mitosis) is that in this reality, super-heroes exist – something happened that bestowed upon a small percentage of the global population special powers. I’m not going to include an official synopsis, as that will give away the ending of Steelheart.

I rather enjoyed the novel (which was the first of the author’s that I’ve read), and when I stumbled across this I was very happy to be able to dive back into the world he’s created. Sanderson self-published this short story, set in the same world as his first super-hero novel, Steelheart. Catch all the action before, Firefight, the exciting sequel to Steelheart, hits shelves in fall 2014.A good short story stop-gap between Steelheart and FirefightĮpics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.

Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in the digital format.

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