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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

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2007
2016
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A series of books geared toward young readers featuring the main character named Alcatraz Smedry.  This series is by Brandon Sanderson.

1) Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
2) Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
3) Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
4) Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
5) Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent
Copyright © 2007 by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC
For my father, Winn Sanderson, who bought me books
I am not a good person.
May contain spoilers
They’ll probably throw you a party.
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It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Many people just don’t know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it.

When two friends get mad at each other, they usually do it because they lack information about each other’s feelings. Americans lack information about Librarian control of their government. The people who pass this book on the shelf and don’t buy it lack information about how wonderful, exciting, and useful it is.

Take, for instance, the word that started this chapter. You lacked information when you read it. You likely assumed that I was calling you an insulting name. You assumed wrong. Moron is actually a village in Switzerland located near the Jura mountain range. It’s a nice place to live if you hate Librarians, for there is a well-hidden underground rebellion there.

Information. Perhaps you Hushlanders have read about Bastille and the others referring to guns as “primitive,” and have been offended. Or perhaps you simply thought the text was being silly. In either case, maybe you should reevaluate.

The Free Kingdoms moved beyond the use of guns many centuries ago. The weapons became impractical for several reasons—some of which should be growing apparent from this narrative. Smedry Talents and Oculator abilities are not the only strange powers in the Free Kingdoms—and most of these abilities work better on items with large numbers of moving parts or breakable circuits. Using a gun against a Smedry, or one similarly talented, is usually a bad idea.

(This comes down to simple probability. The more that can go wrong with an item, the more that will. My computer—when I used to use one—was always about one click away from serious meltdown. My pencil, however, remains to this day remarkably virus-free.)

And so, many of the world’s soldiers and warriors have moved on from guns, instead choosing weapons and armor created from Oculatory sands or silimatic technology. They don’t often associate these items with their ancient counterparts—the people of the Free Kingdoms never got much beyond muskets before they moved on to using sand-based weapons—and so they think that guns are the primitive weapons. It makes sense, if you look at it from their perspective.

And anyone who’s not willing to do that … well, they might just be a moron. Whether or not they live there.

 

Added: 01-Nov-2018
Last Updated: 20-Nov-2019

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It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Many people just don’t know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it.

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 16-Feb-2016
Starscape
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
16-Feb-2016
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$9.99
Pages*:
328
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Once
Internal ID:
1854
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-466-86553-9
ISBN-13:
978-1-466-86553-2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Scott Brundage  - Cover Artist
Hayley Lazo - Illustrator
From amazon.com:

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for young readers by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The fast-paced and funny series is now available in deluxe hardcover editions illustrated by Hayley Lazo.

On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.

"In this original, hysterical homage to fantasy literature, Sanderson's first novel for youth recalls the best in Artemis Fowl and A Series of Unfortunate Events." -VOYA
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Brandon Sanderson  
Birth: 19 Dec 1975 Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Notes:
From Rythm of War (Kindle edition):

BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn® trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning; the Stormlight Archive novels, The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War; and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart for young adults and the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series for middle-grade readers. In 2013 he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® sequence.

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