And maybe, if she's able to figure out what she is, she could be more than just another pilot in this unfolding war. Skyward is set in the same universe as Sanderson's short story Defending Elysium, which details some events before humans became fugitives. She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it. Skyward is a 2018 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. The Skyward series (also known as the Cytoverse) is a series of young adult Science Fiction novels written by American author Brandon Sanderson. Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator. 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. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. Now 47 years old, Sanderson has already published 21.

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