Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson "Interior illustrations by Ben McSweeney"--Copyright page. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Spensas 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. Whats 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 Spensas 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 shes 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. Author Biography Brandon Sanderson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners series: Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity, and the e-original Mitosis; the New York Times bestsellers Skyward and its sequel Starsight; the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy; and the Stormlight Archive. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time series, an adaptation of which is coming to Amazon Prime Video in November 2021. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages and have sold 22 million copies worldwide. Brandon lives and writes in Utah. To learn more about him and his books, visit him at brandonsanderson.com or follow @BrandSanderson on Twitter and Instagram. Review Praise for SkywardAn Instant New York Times BestsellerA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year"Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications . . . Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review"With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast . . . [and] as the pulse-pounding story intensifies and reveals its secrets, a cliffhanger ending sets things up for the next installment." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough." —Booklist"Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society . . . [and] fans of [his] will not be disappointed." —SLJPraise for Starsight, the sequel to SkywardAn Instant New York Times Bestseller"No one has more fun writing or is better at describing galactic dogfights. . . . Read the first one for fun or enjoy the second on its own." —Booklist Review Quote Praise for Skyward An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year " Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications . . . Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too. " -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "With this action-packed trilogy opener , Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast . . . [and] as the pulse-pounding story intensifies and reveals its secrets, a cliffhanger ending sets things up for the next installment." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough. " -- Booklist " Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society . . . [and] fans of [his] will not be disappointed. " -- SLJ Praise for Starsight, the sequel to Skyward An Instant New York Times Bestseller " No one has more fun writing or is better at describing galactic dogfights . . . . Read the first one for fun or enjoy the second on its own." -- Booklist Excerpt from Book 1 I dropped out of a wall. Like, I emerged straight from the stone. I flopped forward in a heap of tangled clothing and limbs. M-Bot made a grunting noise as his drone body fell out beside me, but there was no sign of Doomslug. I scrambled to my feet, orienting myself, looking around to see . . . a jungle? Like, a real jungle. Id seen pictures in school of Old Earth, and this place reminded me of those. Imperious moss-covered trees. Branches like broken arms, twisted and draped with thick vines like power lines. It smelled like the algae vats, only more . . . dirty? Earthy? Scud. It truly was a jungle--like where Tarzan of the Apes had lived in Gran-Grans stories. Were there apes here? Id always thought Id make a good queen of the apes. M-Bot hovered up, turning around to take it in. The wall wed fallen out of was behind us. A flat stone freestanding in the jungle, like a monolith. It was overgrown with weeds and vines, and I recognized the carvings in it. Id seen similar carvings on a wall in the tunnels on Detritus. I knew from the delvers impressions that this was the nowhere. That felt right to me, for reasons I couldnt explain. Somehow I had to find answers in this place. Which seemed a whole lot more daunting to me now than it had moments ago. I . . . scud, I had barely escaped the Superiority with my life. Now I thought I could find answers about the delvers, one of the universes greatest cosmic mysteries? Not merely about the delvers, I thought. About myself. Because in those moments when I touched the nowhere, and the beings that resided in it, I felt something that terrified me. I felt kinship. I took a deep breath. First order of business was an inventory. M-Bot looked fine, and I still had my stolen energy rifle. I felt a ton more safe holding it. I wore what Id escaped in: a standard Superiority pilots jumpsuit, a flight jacket, and a pair of combat boots. M-Bot hovered up to eye level in his drone, his grabber arms twitching. "A jungle?" he asked me. To him, the time Id spent communing with the delver would have passed in an instant. "Um, Spensa, why are we in a jungle?" "Not sure," I said. I glanced around for any sign of Doomslug. She was cytonic like me--slugs were what made ships able to hyperjump--and I hoped that shed done as Id asked, and jumped to safety on Detritus. To be certain, I reached out with my powers to see if I could sense her. Also, could I jump home? I stretched outward, and felt . . . Nothing? I mean, I still had my powers, but I couldnt sense Detritus, or the delver maze, or Starsight. None of the places I could normally hyperjump to. It was eerie. Like . . . waking up at night and turning on the lights, only to find infinite blackness around you. Yes, I was definitely in the nowhere. "When we entered the black sphere, I felt the delvers," I said to M-Bot. "And . . . I talked to one of them. The one from before. It said to walk the Path of Elders." I rested my fingers on the wall behind us. "I think . . . this is a doorway, M-Bot." "The stone wall?" M-Bot asked. "The portal we entered was a sphere." "Yeah," I said, looking up at the sky through the trees. It was pinkish for some reason. "Maybe we passed through the nowhere and came out on another planet?" M-Bot said. "No, this is the nowhere. Somehow." I stomped my foot, testing the soft earth beneath. The air was humid, like in a bath, but the jungle felt too quiet. Werent these places supposed to be teeming with life? Beams of light filtered in from my right, parallel to the ground. So was it . . . sunset here? Id always wanted to see one of those. The stories made them sound dramatic. Unfortunately, the trees were so thick that I couldnt make out the source of the light, merely the direction. "We need to study this place," I said. "Set up a base camp, explore the surroundings, get our bearings." As if he hadnt heard, M-Bot floated closer to me. "M-Bot?" "I . . . Spensa, I am angry!" "Me too," I said, smacking my hand with my fist. "I cant believe that Brade betrayed me. But--" "Im angry at you," M-Bot interrupted, waving an arm. "Of course, what I feel is not real anger. Its just a synthetic representation of emotion created by my processors to present humans with a realistic approximation of . . . of . . . Gah!" I set aside my own concerns and focused on how he sounded. When Id first found M-Bot in the little drone, his speech had been sluggish and slurred--like hed been on heavy pain meds. But he was speaking clearly now, and quickly, more like his old self. He buzzed back and forth in front of me like he was pacing. "I dont care anymore if the emotions are fake. I dont care that my routines simulate them. I am angry, Spensa! You abandoned me on Starsight!" "I had to," I said. "I had to help Detritus!" "They ripped my ship apart!" he said, zipping the other direction. Then he froze in place, hovering. "My ship . . . my body . . . Its gone . . ." He drooped in the air, sagging down almost to the ground. "Uh, M-Bot?" I said, stepping up. "Im sorry. Really. But look, can we have this conversation later?" I was pretty sure that jungles like this were full of dangerous beasts. At least, in Gran-Grans stories people always got attacked in jungles. It made sense: anything could be hiding out among those shadowed trunks and deceptive ferns. I remembered how intimidated Id felt when Id first stepped out of the caverns and seen the sky. There had been so many directions to look, so many open places. This was even more unnerving. Something could come at me from any direction. I reached down to touch M-Bots drone, which still hovered near the ground. "We should map the area," I said, "and see if we can find a cave or something for shelter. Does that drone of yours have any kind of sensors? Are you picking up any signs of civilization, like radio broadcasts? There are mining operations in here, I think." When he didnt reply, I knelt beside him. "M-Bot?" "I," he said, "am angry." "Look--" "You dont care. You never care about me! You left me!" "I came back," I said. "I left you because I had to! Were soldiers. Sometimes we have to make difficult decisions!" "Youre a soldier, Spensa!" he shouted, hovering up in the air. "Im a survey AI designed to search for mushrooms! Why do I keep letting you push me into doing things? I didnt want to even enter that sphere, and you pulled me in! Aaah!" Scud. That drone had surprisingly powerful speakers. And as if in reply to his shouts, something roared in the distance. The sound echoed in the forest ominously. "Look," I said softly to M-Bot. "I understand. Id be a little angry in your place too. Lets--" Before I could finish he zipped away into the jungle, sobbing softly to himself. I cursed and tried to follow, but he could fly--while I had to deal with the underbrush. I leaped over a fallen tree trunk, but on the other side I had to wiggle through a tangle of vines and fronds. After that something caught my foot, and I ended up tumbling to the ground. When I finally managed to right myself, I realized I had no idea what direction hed gone. In fact . . . what direction had I come from? Was that log over there the one Id climbed over? No . . . that had been before Id pushed through the vines. So . . . I groaned, settling into the hollow of some overgrown roots, gun in my lap, and sighed. Well, my quest had started in a traditional Spensa-like fashion: with everyone mad at me. I realized that I needed a moment to decompress. M-Bot wasnt the only one with a lot of powerful emotions. Id gone from confronting a delver to floating in space thinking I was dead, to waking up in a hospital, to escaping a hit squad sent to kill me. Now Id had to make a snap decision about coming to this place, and I worried I was wrong. Maybe I should have gone home and found a way to send someone else into the nowhere to find answers. Someone smart, like Rig. Or someone careful, like Kimmalyn. Right now I felt lost. I didnt know what had happened to Cuna, and I worried about my friends. I was alone, isolated, lost. And to top it off, my only companion--who was supposed to be the emotionally stable one, by programming design--had just thrown a tantrum and left. Did people in Gran-Grans stories ever feel like this? I wished I knew what Khutulun of Mongolia or Calamity Jane of the Wild West had done when feeling overwhelmed. I dont know how long I sat there. Long enough to notice that whatever was providing the light here didnt seem to be moving. I let myself fixate on that instead of my mounting anxiety about Jorgen and my friends. Id made my decision. Now that I was here, I needed to learn what I could, then find a way home. "M-Bot?" I said to the trees, my voice coming out as a croak. "If you can hear me, would you please come back? I promise to apologize--and Ill even let you have the first insult." No reply. Only the sound of faintly rustling leaves. So I forced myself to focus on a more detailed inventory of my assets. A way to do something about my situation--no matter how small--in order to start reasserting control. Cobb had taught me that. Scud. Id told Cobb that Cunas faction wanted peace. Winzik and Brade could use that to lure Cobb into talks--then double-cross him. No, I told myself. Inventory. I gave my rifle a quick once-over. Id barely used up any of its charge during my escape, which meant I had a power source--and roughly five hundred shots, depending on whether I used standard energy rounds or amped rounds. Details ISBN0399555862 Author Brandon Sanderson Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0399555862 ISBN-13 9780399555862 Format Hardcover Imprint Delacorte Press Pages 432 Series Number 3 Country of Publication United States Audience Age 12 Publisher Random House USA Inc Series The Skyward Series Place of Publication New York Publication Date 2021-11-30 AU Release Date 2021-11-30 NZ Release Date 2021-11-30 US Release Date 2021-11-30 UK Release Date 2021-11-30 DEWEY FIC Audience Teenage / Young adult We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158526737;

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