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Blightfall

Blightfall

Science FictionYoung Adult
Pages
496
Language
English

Synopsis

With the war against the alien Krell finally won, ace pilot Arturo Mendez expects his next assignment — escorting diplomats to reconnect with a lost human settlement — to be routine. Instead his flight finds the planet Blightfall a hostile, forest-swallowed ruin, the "settlement" nothing like expected, and the mission spiraling into a fight for survival and buried secrets.

Blightfall opens Riftwake, a new series set in the Skyward Saga's Cytoverse.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

AdventurousTenseMysterious
SurvivalMystery Box

Genres

Science Fiction Young Adult Space Opera Military Sci-Fi YA Fantasy

Authors

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Brandon Sanderson

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1975, Brandon Sanderson spent his early twenties working graveyard shifts at a hotel — writing novels at the front desk between guest check-ins. By the time his debut, Elantris, was published by Tor Books in 2005, he had completed thirteen novels in the drawer. His subsequent Mistborn trilogy and the ongoing Stormlight Archive series established him as the primary architect of the Cosmere, an interconnected fictional universe in which most of his fantasy series share...

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Janci Patterson

Janci Patterson is an American novelist who writes young adult science fiction and fantasy, epic fantasy and romantic comedy. She holds an MA in creative writing from Brigham Young University and made her debut with Chasing the Skip (2012), later reissued as Skipped. She has co-written several books with Brandon Sanderson, including Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians and the Skyward novellas Sunreach, ReDawn and Evershore, collected as Skyward Flight. She has published around forty books across tr...

Characters

Arturo MendezProtagonist

Leader of Skyward Flight, a pilot of the Defiant Defense Force, assigned to escort diplomats to an isolated human settlement.

All characters in Blightfall

Frequently asked questions

  • Do I need to read the Skyward series before starting this book?

    This novel is a direct follow-up to the events of the Skyward saga and features characters and history established in those previous entries. While it begins a new trilogy, familiarity with the established Cytoverse and the history of the Defiant Defense Force is highly recommended for full context.

  • Is this book part of the Cosmere?

    This story takes place within the Cytoverse, which is a separate fictional universe from the Cosmere.