The tale involves time travel, an examination of mental health and politics and faith, all recognisable Sanderson themes but here examined in various time streams. (Older UK readers may now be thinking of 1960’s TV series Joe 90 as a similar concept.) When Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera that allows the user to take pictures through time, goes missing, Stephen and his team are conscripted to find him.įor such a brief tale, in its first UK print edition, there’s a lot going on. This unusual condition means that Stephen is in demand from the government, for his multifarious skills give him an ideal vocation in espionage. They exist as what Stephen calls hallucinations or aspects, in a place in Stephen’s head that he can wander through. In his head there is not just ‘himself’ but also a series of multiple personalities, all of whom have special skills and talents – an aspect of Brandon’s work regular readers may recognise. The story is of Stephen Leeds, the ‘Legion’ of the title, whose mental condition is rather unusual. As a result, the pace is fast, which will surprise those readers used to Brandon’s immersive tales sprawling over hundreds of pages. It is rather on the short side, but this means that there’s little room for detailed rumination or detailed backgrounds. The first page shows a character shooting a picture of Osama bin Laden with a gun, not something we normally expect from a Sanderson book. Instead of stories based around spren or even magic powers, Legion is undoubtedly contemporary, perhaps surprisingly so. For those many who have read those series or even his books written to complete the Wheel of Time series, Legion might be a shock. Brandon is one of the best-selling authors of Fantasy today with his Mistborn and Stormlight Archive books.
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