Legion: Skin Deep is speculative fiction at its most highly developed.
What follows is a visionary thriller about the potential uses of technology, the mysteries of the human personality, and the ancient human need to believe that death is not the end. He may have embedded something in the cells of his now dead body. The corpse is that of a pioneer in the field of experimental biotechnology, a man whose work concerned the use of the human body as a massive storage device. As the new story begins, Leeds and his "aspects" are hired by I3 (Innovative Information Incorporated) to recover a corpse stolen from the local morgue. Stephen Leeds, AKA ''Legion',' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. In the stunning sequel, Legion: Skin Deep, that talent is on full display. In Legion, a short, distinctly contemporary novella filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson revealed a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent. His ambitious, multi-volume epics (Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive) and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. And some of those hallucinations think they know better than Stephen just how many aspects his mind should make room for.Brandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. Meanwhile, Stephen's uneasy peace with his own hallucinations is beginning to fray at the edges, as he strives to understand how one of them could possibly have used Stephen's hand to shoot a real gun during the previous case. The biotechnology company he worked for believes he encoded top-secret information in his DNA before he died, and if it falls into the wrong hands, that will mean disaster. Now Stephen and his internal team of "aspects" have been hired to track down a stolen corpse-but it's not the corpse that's important, it's what the corpse knows. Clients want to tap into the imaginary experts that populate his mind-and it's getting a bit crowded in there. It's not his own genius that Stephen Leeds gets hired for. Now also available in the complete collection Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds.įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Stephen Leeds is back in a new, double-length novella that Library Journal says has "the pulse of a thriller and the hook of a fascinating hero balancing on the edge of psychosis."
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