


It’s not the type of spoiler that will ruin a story–I do think some readers would enjoy watching how I lace them together. Meaning if you know the novella this is tied to you’ll know a moderately large plot point in the book. So, here’s the thing–it’s a pretty big spoiler. It was something that did not work with Cosmere technology though, so it was a natural fit to port Spensa over to this other universe instead. When I started to work on Skyward as my next YA project, I decided I wanted to use a certain technological aspect from a story I’d previously worked on–something I touched on in a novella, but which was still very interesting to me all these years later. When Spensa started life in my brain, she was a Cosmere pilot character, from around Mistborn Era Four. he's simply a brilliant writer' Patrick Rothfuss Praise for Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times Bestselling RECKONERS series: but their desperation to survive might just take her skyward. They've doubled their fleet, making Spensa's world twice as dangerous. And the Krell just made that a possibility. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to fly. But her fate is intertwined with her father's - a pilot who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa's chances of attending flight school somewhere between slim and none. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them of soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human race. Humanity's only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years.
