Brandon Sanderson · series
Skyward books in order
A young-adult science-fiction series about humanity's struggle against alien forces.
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- 1 Skyward
Book 1 · novel · 2018
Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with that of…
- 2 Starsight
Book 2 · novel · 2019
All her life, Spensa's dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true—he deserted his flight…
- 3 Cytonic
Book 3 · novel · 2021
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…
- 4 Defiant
Book 4 · novel · 2023
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what…
