This is the Barbieheimer of booktube

“I would rather take cheese graters to my eyes instead of writing”. Joe Abercrombie, one of the best fantasy writers of the current era.

Nothing is more relatable than early on when Daniel tried to say something 3 times and just accepted it wasn't meant to be.

I love Pratchett's take on Tolkien “J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.” ― Terry Pratchett

I couldn't see Sanderson's feet. There's nothing you can say that would convince me he wasn't typing a new book with his toes.

Daniel asks a single question then the Bois just talk for 10+ min ahhhh I love it.

Daniel *literally* putting himself into the corner and just letting these guys roll is a testament to his wisdom as a host.

Daniel, you did a great job with the interview. Just stayed quiet and let them ask eachother questions. Very well done.

Thank you so much for arranging this, Daniel. Two of my favorite authors in conversation. Not often I thoroughly watch an interview to the end, but time flew by.

I love the part toward the end "Is anything unadaptable?" "No." "I'm sending that to Steven Erikson right now."😂

I love you Daniel. I feel for you every time you tried to interject and got talked over by these Legends. While I selfishly saying to myself, shut up Daniel, you're ruining my sando-crombie main course delight. You rolled with the punches maintaining your vital disheveled attributes. Well done.

Joe being a Rivers of Blood build guy somehow is fitting.

The crazy thing is that I got recommended Joe Abercrombie through watching Brandon Sanderson's lecture videos. When he talks about breaking in and the notes he received, he pretty much says "They really wanted Joe Abercrombie, but didn't know it yet". To add to the magic, I was broke but had an audible credit at the time. Now I've got everything of his on Audible, which a lot of people think is the best way to consume them. 🤘

Props to Daniel for sitting back and letting these two have the floor. We got a natural flowing conversation that was so enjoyable to watch.

Never in my lifetime did I ever anticipate watching two masters of the fantasy genre just casually discussing their builds in Elden Ring.

Who else would kill to read each of these guys write a short story set in the other's universe?

Sanderson: "When we read an Abercrombie book, we want to HEAR Abercrombie!" Correction: "When we read an Abercrombie book, we want to hear Steven Pacey!" 😂

Holy hell that did not feel like one hour at all! I need these 2 to do a podcast right now!!!! Great work Daniel

This was truly one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen. Kudos to Daniel for allowing the back and forth rather than trying to barge in with questions.

that was great man. thanks Daniel. you are the goat. THE GOAT

I could have watched hours of these two go at it with each other, like Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series. It’s incredibly interesting to see two masters of their crafts interview each other on their respective processes. Kudos to Daniel for setting this up!

This was so good, my 2 favorite authors just chatting for an hour straight, the only problem was that it wasn't 10x longer. Congrats on managing to set this up Dan, and thanks as well for just letting them chat when they got onto a tangent! Was wonderful!

It made me laugh how at 1:03:33 when Daniel said a Cosmere book was probably published during the live stream, it looked like Brandon thought "wait, _do_ we have any book coming out right now?" for half a second before going "oh, lol, it was a joke of course."

I have never seen Daniel this happy before, he's sitting in a personal podcast lol

3 GOATS, 2 chairs, a fern, and a goblin with a dagger. What’s not to love? It was an awesome hour, thank you very much!

Fifth Sorceress. My god. Why did you resurrect that in my mind!? It was finally gone after 20+ years!

59:10 Joe is trying so hard not to laugh at the phrase “religious nonfiction” 😂

Hahaha this was a lot of fun. Didn't get through a ton of questions because they're both so charismatic and chatty, but the conversation was really enjoyable.

People underestimate the range that George R.R. Martin has especially with his older work.

This was such a fun live stream! I loved the whole conversation. Thank you for this Daniel!

Now you should get a stream together where PatRoth sits and writes for an hour. Then do it 700 more times so we can get book 3.

Finished Cosmere last year, finished WoT this year. Starting Joe’s books now…

I love how you just realised they won't stop talking and made your self smaller. that was really funny. :) but still great questions and great interview. :)

I discovered the blade itself randomly on a bookshelf in a public library when I was like 11 years old. It is shocking to me, to an insane degree how many people I know who love fantasy that have never heard of Abercrombie. It was a total happy accident that I do know him and his work.

this was simply amazing. i wish it was 5 hours long.

I just hope Sanderson reads this and knows that Tress of the Emerald Sea was so magical and wonderful and beautiful and i'm so forever grateful for having been able to experience such a wonderful and thoughtful story.

Sandercrombie, love to see it! I could listen to these guys talk shop for multiple hours, but one will do for now. I wonder if you're looking to set up other two-author chats.

I’d love a Steven Erikson and Brandon Sanderson one!

Ah perfect I have the Blade Itself on my reading list. Just what I need.

33:25 that’s EXACTLY how I started reading Joe Abercrombie. Finished the entire cosmere (twice😅) and wanted something new in fantasy

This flashed up randomly on my feed today, I'm so glad I took the time to watch it - absolutely brilliant. Kudos to Daniel for stepping back very early on and just letting Joe and Brandon talk!

Absolutely brilliant content. We really should get a show with Daniel Greene about books on Netflix or Amazon.

What a wonderful experience it was just listening to these two Goats ❤❤

Brandon did a great job the one time I met him at DragonCon. Made sure everyone got a chance to ask him a question in his signature line. What a monster.

My two favourite writers! Absolutely love it!

I do think that despite a live-action adaptation having more credibility/oomph in the industry, a series like Mistborn and Stormlight feel like they are better suited for animated works because there is a lot of action and motion that goes into the magic systems of those worlds, and I personally find that animation can capture that better than a heavily VFXed movie.

I'm so happy Michael Moorcock and Jack Vance were mentioned

Brandon's shoutout to GGK made my day.

My 2 favourite authors on screen together chatting away, this was too awesome. Love your channel Daniel, you really know how to moderate big personalities and your content is top notch as always.

What Sanderson said about burning out on fantasy in 00s, I hit a slump for exactly the reasons he stated. I stopped reading fantasy for years and gravitated towards comics/manga. I've rediscovered my passion for it in the last few years, there are so many great authors and series with so much diversity, I feel like a teenager dipping my toe back in. I've a TBR that's going to last me years. Both these authors have contributed to this. I loved this interview, thank you

34:20 Guy Gavriel Kay as an author's author! I listened to one of his books a year ago and loved the quality. It was recommended to me by someone I was swapping fantasy stories with. I need to listen to more of his work.

Just started listening to this, I hope Abercrombie was asked about Glokta and if he was going to write more with him in! Nothing else matters!!

As a person from Spain PLEASE COME BACK TO THE CELSIUS FESTIVAL💜💜💜💜💜

My two favorite writers, wow. Thank you so much for putting this together, amazing!

Daniel, great job having the humility to step back and just let these two great authors chat with each other. Great interview.

I finished all of the Sanderson books then discovered Abercrombie right after. Just finished the last book in the First Law series. The difference between the two author's styles are immense but I enjoyed them both equally. Moved onto the Powdermage Triliogy and am really enjoying that too. Sorry for rambling. Just wanna say this is kind of surreal for me seeing two authors who recently affected my understanding of the genre so much chatting together. They have both inspired me to start writing.

Thus was simply a joy to watch

author 1, when asked what he likes most about author 2's work, answered, in effect, "he's a good businessman." author 2 didn't not (=did) notice.

Amazing interview

Awesome man. This was a blast!!

Brandon saying everyone needs Morcock made my day. 😅

EPIC podcast. Thanks Daniel

Hearing Brandon Sanderson talking to Daniel and Joe about how great the one piece adaptation is is something special.

This was amazing!

Awesome interview!

This was brilliant

This was great ❤

This was fantastic! Great interview

This was....amazing

i am currently reading Hero of Ages and Best Served Cold, how did i just find out this exist?!?

Tnx mate it was great

love that these are a thing. so glad that their is a platform for the types of conversations and that i get to be a fly on a wall watching them :] thank you daniel

This was a fantastic chat all round, thank you very much for setting this up Daniel .

What a great duo interview!!

Wow, what a stream. Good work facilitating this, Daniel, and good job hosting!

Thank you for doing this! ❤

Abercrombie is my all time number 1 guy and I love him and his books to high heaven. That said, the man that got me BACK into fantasy reading after 10-12 years away was Sanderson when I kept seeing/hearing about Stormlight Archive and gave it a go and fell in love. For a bit there in 2020-2021 Sanderson was my modern fave. Then Abercrombie has completely and utterly taken over my life since. Still gosh dang what a GREAT couple of guests, a yin Yang of modern fantasy writing, both masters! What a pleasure and thank you!

Thanks for this interview! Fantastic!

This is an excellent interview!

How wonderful!

Great stuff, Thank you mr. Goblin. Kudos !

I'm sorry I missed this live, but it was still fantastic. Thanks so much for making this happen, Daniel!

Great conversation! Thanks, Daniel and friends.

Well done, mate. Happy to see you organize these things🎉

This interview is amazing dude.

This was awesome

31:27 funnily enough when I was reading Eye of the World I was like "yeah, I've read Fellowship of the Ring already"

You nailed this one Daniel!

Great time listening!

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best interview ever.

That just really made my day :)

I love how they asked questions to each other

Thank you Daniel! Great Interview

Awesome stream ❤

This is brilliant ! I like the way your mostly just let these guys flow with each other! Sir Joe Abercrombie And … Mr Brandon Sanderson, lol

That was very fun to watch/listen to, an hour passed like a minute!

What an amazing video. Thank you for organising daniel

Now that’s a KZfaq video. Great stuff thank you to everyone involved.

that was fantastic

Great interview. I really enjoyed both of them asking each other questions and just chatting as well.