Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too. ' Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications. The only way she can discover what she really is, though, is to leave behind all she knows and enter the Nowhere. And maybe, if she’s able to figure out what she is, she could be more than just another pilot in this unfolding war.

She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it. Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator.Įxcept that Spensa is Cytonic. Ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant. And Spensa’s seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Now, the Superiority-the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life-has started a galaxy-wide war. What’s more, she traveled light-years from home as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell-the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary.

The third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction from the author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive.

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In an AMA leading up to the release of the first book, Brandon stated that the trilogy would likely become a four book series, which turned out to be true. The trilogy was officially announced in State of the Sanderson 2017.

When he revealed the title of this new project he also announced that it was no longer planned as part of the cosmere because the story needed to reference Earth to work properly. Brandon began working on it in October 2017 after some difficulty with Apocalypse Guard caused that book to be delayed, and updated his website to read 'Mystery Project'. Skyward was originally planned as a YA novel set in the cosmere. They will be co-written with Janci Patterson. Skyward Legacy is a series of novels taking place directly after Defiant and the rest of the Skyward Quartet, following the same cast of characters. Their initial release was with ebook and audiobook versions only, but a combined print volume of all three novellas, entitled Skyward Flight, came out on April 5, 2022. They are set between Starsight and Cytonic. In addition to the main series novels, there are three novellas, each co-written by Janci Patterson and each following a different point-of-view character.

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