Skyward
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Released | 6 November 2018 |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Skyward is a young adult novel in the first drafts of development.[1] Brandon says the premise for this story is "How to Train Your Dragon but instead it's a girl who finds a spaceship and goes to Top Gun school. It's like a mashup between Top Gun and Ender's Game and How to Train Your Dragon with an old broken-down spaceship with a really weird personality."[2] Skyward is not cosmere, but is "in the continuity of something I’ve written before," Sanderson said.[3]
The book has a tentative release date of November 6, 2018.[4]
Synopsis
As currently stated on Brandon's website:
Spensa’s world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity’s only defense is to take to their ships and combat the Krell. Pilots are the heroes of what’s left of the human race.
Becoming a pilot has always been Spensa’s dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring above the earth and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with that of her father–a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa’s chances of attending Flight School at slim to none.
No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is determined to fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They’ve doubled their fleet, which will make Spensa’s world twice as deadly... but just might take her skyward.
Notes
- ↑ State of the Sanderson
— Brandon's website - Jul 24, 2013# - ↑ Brandon Sanderson Reads From Skyward
— 17th Shard YouTube Channel - Nov 14, 2017# - ↑ Oathbringer Release Party
— Arcanum - Nov 13, 2017# - ↑ Officially Announcing Skyward
— Brandon's website - Dec 18, 2017#