The Emperor's Soul

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Like all good stories, all's well that ends well (not in the least because Shai added a more personal touch to the Emperor's soul stamps), and that not every human being is corrupted by the (political) system, that some still do value integrity and authenticity - I'm looking at you, Gaotona. Something our present world needs very badly.

Nun aber weiter zur Geschichte. Shai wird erwischt und soll eigentlich schon hingerichtet werden, als die Berater des Imperators ihr einen Handel vorschlagen, Der Imperator wurde bei einen Attentat schwer verwundet und gilt, trotz aller Versuche seinen Körper wiederherzustellen, als hirntot. Shai soll seine Seele nachmodellieren, sodass er erwacht und weiter regieren kann, wenn auch nur als unvollständige Kopie seiner selbst. Denn wenn herauskäme dass der Imperator tot ist, würde ein neuer gewählt werden und eine andere Partei käme an die Macht, was die Berater natürlich verhindern wollen da sie damit selbst jegliche Macht verlieren würden.Stephen has the ability to call new hallucinations at will for certain purposes and when he becomes mixed up in a top-secret situation which went wrong, he uses the help of his many 'friends' to solve what has happened and work out what to do... You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.” –Brandon Sanderson Ambos relatos me han encantado, los personajes son geniales, especialmente Legión y la forma que tiene de interactuar con sus alucinaciones, me ha hecho reír en bastantes ocasiones. No podría elegir un favorito, porque ambas historias son tan distintas y a la vez tan mágicas... This novella, although set in Sel, has little connection to the events of Elantris. It takes place in another land, maybe in a different time, with another Empire and another magic system. Although it has many similarities to the system from Elantris, it's a bit different. I must say I really enjoyed how Sanderson played with the idea of being able to change history and thus change people or objects.

Sobre los dos libros de esta reseña. Del primero ("Legión") decir que me lo leí del tirón. Y del segundo ("El alma del emperador"), que no me lo leí del tirón porque no tenía tiempo de hacerlo, pero que siempre que podía "me escapaba" para leer ni que fuera un poquito más. Así de enganchado me han tenido. Y aunque suene contradictorio, por un lado me quejo de la pereza que da empezar una saga/trilogía, y ahora me voy a quejar de que es una pena que estos dos no fueran más largos (aunque "Legión" tiene continuación, por ahora en inglés). Me habría encantado leer más "aventuras" sobre los protagonistas de los dos libros. The Emperor’s Soul is Brandon Sanderson’s Hugo Award-winning novella inspired by his visit to the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. Sanderson was duly impressed by the hundreds of thousands of artifacts on display, covering eight thousand years of Chinese history, and he was particularly drawn to the red stamps used by Chinese artists, scholars, and nobility. Sanderson developed a magic system based on these red stamps, giving them the ability to alter an object’s history, thereby recasting its future. With this, the central idea for The Emperor’s Soul was born.

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Los demás personajes también me han encantado, y mira que siendo tan corto no da para mucho, pero veremos la personalidad de muchos de ellos y como cada uno tiene su interés por diferentes cosas. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy. Is a skillful forgery any less lovely and awe-inspiring simply because it isn’t an “original”? It requires just as much talent and even more attention to detail, along with research and study that the original artist never had to consider. King Solomon claimed that “there is nothing new under the sun,” so what constitutes originality? Art has always been incredibly important in my life. Should I not sing or write or play guitar unless I have something entirely new to say? The most we can hope for as artists is to say something that’s already been said countless times but in some new way. Because nothing is ever said quite the same way twice. There can be no perfect forgeries, not really. When you pour yourself into something, when you give your art everything you are, your blood and sweat and tears and heart and soul, there will be some originality there, in spite of what critics may say. There has to be, because you are an original. There has never been and never will be a copy of you, and thus everything you create bears the unique imprint of your fingertips, your soul, your self. Während ihrer Zeit in der Gefangenschaft, steht Gaotona, einer der Berater, ihr zur Seite, um ihre Kreationen zu testen... My first official read of 2018, read this first cause I know I'll love it and I wanted to start the year with something I'll love.

In the short time we spend with the wonderful Stephen Leeds , who is a sort of private detective, we are introduced to an assortment of his 'brilliant friends' who help him with his cases and who are all in fact his own hallucinations, some of whom don't realise that they are hallucinations, which gives rise to some very funny moments in the story. The Emperor's Soul won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella. [1] Strange Horizons called it "thoughtful yet exciting" and "difficult to put down," and judged that it deserved its award because of the questions it raises about the nature of art. [3] There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. ”El alma del emperador’ es mucho Or more specifically, what if you could change the history of an object and essentially recreate what it believes it is? I loved this story so much because it felt so original, creative and just downright fun. The idea that you can craft an object or soul into something better and the idea that this comes only with much study, hard work and learning I felt was a valuable lesson and a wonderful story. I cannot begin to say all the reasons that I loved it, but just know that this is my favourite short story in a long time, and I would HIGHLY recommend reading it because I didn't guess what was going to happen and I just thoroughly enjoyed the whole time reading it. Shai is given an impossible task: to create—to Forge—a new soul for the emperor in less than one hundred days. But her soul-Forgery is considered an abomination by her captors. She is confined to a tiny, dirty chamber, guarded by a man who hates her, spied upon by politicians, and trapped behind a door sealed in her own blood. Shai’s only possible ally is the emperor’s most loyal councillor, Gaotona, who struggles to understand her true talent. Time is running out for Shai. Forging, while deducing the motivations of her captors, she needs a perfect plan to escape… It took me some chapters to get into the story, mostly because I thought it'd have more resemblance with the novel, but I ended up loving Shai's journey.

El alma del emperador sigue la historia de Shai, quien es cautiva y está a punto de recibir un juicio luego de hacerse pasar por una noble de alta alcurnia, falsificar unas pinturas y robar algo del Imperio Rosa. Sin embargo, recibe una propuesta por parte de los árbitros (quienes manejan parte del trono y la política del imperio) que será la única oportunidad para salvarse el pellejo y a su misma vez beneficiarlos a ellos con el mantenimiento del orden y el poder sobre el imperio. A cambio de su libertad, la misión de Shai es hacer una falsificación del alma del emperador luego de que este mismo hubiera recibido un atentado que lo dejó inerte e inservible mentalmente y en el que murió su esposa, la emperatriz. Para ello, debe copiar cada aspecto de la vida del emperador Ashravan, desde sus gustos más sencillos hasta lo más particular como sus actitudes y comportamientos para que absolutamente nadie sospeche de que es una copia exacta o al menos, casi perfecta.I received the recent edition of Brandon Sanderson’s ‘Legion and The Emperor’s Soul’ which contains the two short stories bound within the recent Shardverse-published books, allowing me the first chance I’ve had to read ‘The Emperor’s Soul’, continuing my Brandon Sanderson orgy. I loved everything that I've read so far by Sanderson; The Stormlight Archive, Warbreaker, Elantris and Mistborn (Cosmere is a vast place with amazing stories). So I knew I won't be disappointed here as well. Which I was not indeed. But, WHY was this so short? It was Such a unique story, and I would have loved to hear more about Shai and Gaotana and the emperor. Where does Sanderson get these ideas? :) (He actually explains in the postscript if you're interested).