Cytonic (The Skyward Series)

Name: Cytonic (The Skyward Series)
Price: 8.99 USD
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Rating: 4.5 (10819 reviews)
Author: Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9780399555886

Brandon Sanderson

4.5 out of 5

10,819 global ratings

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.

Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. 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. 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. Now, the Superiority—the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life—has started a galaxy-wide war. And Spensa’s seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant. Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator. Except that Spensa is Cytonic. She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it. 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 could save the galaxy. The only way she can discover what she really is, though, is to leave behind all she knows and enter the Nowhere. A place from which few ever return. To have courage means facing fear. And this mission is terrifying.

About the authors

Brandon Sanderson

I’m Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.

Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.

November 2022 saw the release of The Lost Metal, the seventh volume in the Mistborn saga, and the final volume of the Mistborn Era Two featuring Wax & Wayne. The third era of Mistborn is slated to be written after the first arc of the Stormlight Archive wraps up.

In November 2020 we saw the release of Rhythm of War—the fourth massive book in the New York Times #1 bestselling Stormlight Archive series that began with The Way of Kings—and Dawnshard (book 3.5), a novella set in the same world that bridges the gaps between the main releases. This series is my love letter to the epic fantasy genre, and it’s the type of story I always dreamed epic fantasy could be. The fifth volume, Wind and Truth, is set for release in fall 2024.

Most readers have noticed that my adult fantasy novels are in a connected universe called the Cosmere. This includes The Stormlight Archive, both Mistborn series, Elantris, Warbreaker, and various novellas available on Amazon, including The Emperor’s Soul, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. In November 2016 all of the existing Cosmere short fiction was released in one volume called Arcanum Unbounded. If you’ve read all of my adult fantasy novels and want to see some behind-the-scenes information, that collection is a must-read.

I also have three YA series: The Rithmatist (currently at one book), The Reckoners (a trilogy beginning with Steelheart), and Skyward. For young readers I also have my humorous series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, which had its final book, Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, come out in 2022. Many of my adult readers enjoy all of those books as well, and many of my YA readers enjoy my adult books, usually starting with Mistborn.

Additionally, I have a few other novellas that are more on the thriller/sci-fi side. These include the Legion series, as well as Perfect State and Snapshot. There’s a lot of material to go around!

Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings.

I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes.

Sample chapters from all of my books are available at brandonsanderson.com—and check out the rest of my site for chapter-by-chapter annotations, deleted scenes, and more.

Neil

Updated: Good story - bad disk - new disk

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023

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Updated 8-3-2023: After reading another review of someone who had the same issue, I reached out to Brilliance Audio and they promptly and without issue replaced my audio CD. They were king and very helpful and the new one arrived quickly and works perfectly!! Thank you Brilliance Audio for standing by your products and customers!

Original review: I have been listening to the whole Skyward series and enjoying it. The characters are interesting, the action draws me in and the story line is realistic. The main character speaks of fanciful figures from the stories but she is portrayed as a real person with faults, mistakes and even regrets. None of the characters are truly larger than life even if they are in a world far away in a distant future. Unfortunately, the disc is mostly blank in tracks 29 and 30, right in the middle of the story. :( And of course, it has just been past 30 days so I cannot return it. If you like science fiction and spunky characters who are not quite perfect, you will enjoy this series. I just hope you get a better disc than I did.

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ELLIOTTCABLE

Surprisingly deep emotional journey

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024

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Too few pew-pew / YA romps like this utterly-accessible joy-of-a-book actually delve into mental health, emotional well-being, and adulthood so well.

I feel like I learned things from these characters. Didn’t see that coming. The first couple books in this series were cute, but not startlingly good — but this one definitely took a turn into deep topics.

Well done, mister sands. Well done.

Robert

If you enjoyed the first two, this is also good

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024

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Honestly, if you're this far into the series and looking at review to see whether or not you're going to continue, I don't know what to tell you. It's similar in terms of tone and pacing to the other two books. If you liked them, you should really already know what to expect at this point.

Another awesome Brandon Sanderson book in the Skyward series

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2024

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Well done! Syncing the previous 2 books with the 3rd book. No serious loose ends because it's not the end yet. Cheers! Moving on to the next book.

Blue Print

an amazing ending to a very good story.

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023

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I was not really happy with book two, and I struggled through the first third of this story. But, Sanderson has carefully grown his characters and given them a depth that wasn’t there before. They were children and now they are adults with matching capacities.

As always the prose is straight forward and without subtlety, The story is the payoff and, in the end, not only doesn’t disappoint—it shines.

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