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Cytonic

by Brandon Sanderson

A pilot’s next step beyond the known galaxy

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A pilot’s next step beyond the known galaxy

In the third installment of the series, Spensa’s role shifts from defending her people to confronting a threat that reaches across planetary systems. The Superiority’s war and its devastating Delvers raise the stakes, while Spensa’s discovery that she is Cytonic points toward a different kind of answer than another starfighter mission. Her search leads into the Nowhere, a place tied to what she might be and from which few return. The premise connects an expanding interstellar conflict with a personal mystery about identity and the limits of Spensa’s abilities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following Spensa’s continuing story in the series.
  • Young adult science-fiction readers interested in pilots, alien forces, and interstellar conflict.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining a large-scale galactic threat with a protagonist’s personal discovery.

Themes

Identity and self-discoveryCourage in the face of fearInterstellar conflictThe limits of power

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Book overview

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.
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