He has taken on a job that needs this with all his aspects present to solve a mystery. When a job comes along that requires the extra effort he goes to his specially built White Room where everything painted in the same shade of uniform matte white and soundproofed. Imaging more than four or five at a time ‘is taxing’. There is Ivy the psychologist, JC the ex-Special Forces and Tobias the historian and forty-four others. He imagines real people that specialise in subjects who tell him what he needs to know. Stephen Leeds can remember exactly everything he has seen and heard but the way he brings back these memories is highly unusual. My Rating : 3.‘Legion: Skin Deep’ by Brandon Sanderson is the second novella in the ‘Legion’ trilogy. Tl dr : Not as cool as the original and feels like it treads somewhat the same ground, this is nonetheless a fun and enjoyable little book. I was totally prepared to cringe when Leeds started talking about “hacking”, but what followed had me chuckling – it was actually remarkably accurate and believable. And as a programmer myself, i totally loved Legion’s graphology/cryptology persona, Audrey. Unlike Legion, Skin Deep’s tech feels like it could be a real thing. Though to give credit where credit is due, the mystery story is rather well done. And that meant I just didn’t enjoy this book as much I might have, if I hadn’t read Legion first. I wanted to find out more about his often alluded past, or more about his psychosis/superpower. And again, Stephen Leeds uses his unique psychological condition to crack the case.īut I don’t want Leeds taking on techno-chases. Last time it was a camera that could photograph the past, this time it’s a method to store information in live cells. Once again, there’s a mystery to be solved, surrounding which is a groundbreaking new technology. In fact, it feels at most like an expanded version of the original. I actually did enjoy the book – because this Sanderson, after all, but it just didn’t feel as cool and nice as Legion.

While the original felt groundbreaking and refreshing, the sequel feels… sequelly. Skin Deep is the sequel to Brandon Sanderson’s novella, Legion. 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.

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