Defending Elysium
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4.4 • 74 Ratings
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Publisher Description
As Brandon Sanderson’s #1 bestselling Skyward series celebrates its third volume, Cytonic, travel back in time to the origin of Cytonics in the novella Defending Elysium.
Centuries before Spensa looked skyward from the planet Detritus—back on Old Earth before it was lost—Jason Write faced a crucial question: was humanity ready to join galactic society?
When faster-than-light communications were discovered by a small telephone company in 2071, alien species such as the Tenasi and Varvax overheard them and came to visit Earth. Because the Phone Company controls all communications with the aliens, their operatives like Jason operate above the law.
Now, on the space platform Evensong, one of the Phone Company’s scientists has gone missing before surfacing in a hospital with amnesia, and Jason is sent to investigate. Right as he arrives, the body of a murdered Varvax ambassador is discovered, sure to cause a galactic incident. Coln Abrams of the United Intelligence Bureau seizes the opportunity to investigate Jason as he deals with the crisis. This could be the UIB’s chance to discover the Phone Company’s secrets—how does FTL communication work, and what is Jason hiding?
Winner of Spain’s UPC Award for Science Fiction in 2007.
Customer Reviews
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I loved it!!! But it was like…only 30 pages long. I was trying to figure out where the rest of the book was. I read in the introduction that it had originally been published in a magazine but I thought it had been expanded. I should have known by the price. I loved the Skyward series. I guess, I wanted more.
Very great!!
Sanderson is amazing. I love how this story is kinda “uncompleted,” but you complete it in your mind in a couple minutes because you already know the rest of the story, but since Brandon Sanderson made this book, it gives the story that you already know life! It gives it character. Also, the greatest thing in my opinion about this novela is that it gives you the humans’ side of the story. Instead of being like ‘the humans used to be evil in trying to start a war’ you realize that they were going to be oppressed even back then. So you can understand both sides. Understanding different perspectives is what makes a story better and gives it depth. And that’s why Sanderson is great!! 😊