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{{image|Skyward UK Hardcover.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Cover of the British edition of ''[[Skyward]]''}}
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The '''Cytoverse'''{{wob ref|13771}} is the setting of ''[[Defending Elysium]]'' and the [[Skyward (series)|Skyward series]].{{wob ref|11965}} It is our own world, albeit in the far future; as such, it is not part of the [[cosmere]]. Alongside [[Earth (Skyward)|Earth]] and humanity, it contains numerous spacefaring species, all of which share a magic system known as [[cytonics]], which is what the universe is named after.
=== ''Defending Elysium'' ===
Brandon created ''[[Defending Elysium]]'' in 2003; it was the last story he'd written prior to selling ''[[Elantris (book)|Elantris]]'' and thus kickstarting the [[cosmere]]. Though ''Defending Elysium'' won a honorable mention at the Writers of the Future contest in 2003, it wouldn't see the light of day until 2008, when, after substantial re-editing, it won the first prize at [https://renoir.upc.edu/brgf/cficcio//premi_upc/angles/2007/dades_edicio.php UPC Science Fiction Award] in Spain. It was subsequently published in [https://www.asimovs.com Asimov's Science Fiction]'s October/November 2008 issue, and then released publicly on Brandon's website in 2009.{{bws ref|/short-fiction-non-cosmere/#DEFENDINGELYSIUM|About Defending Elysium|date=01-01-2020}}
=== The travels of Spensa, space pilot ===
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