She is welcomed by Cuna, a representative of the Superiority, and enters a training program to provide fighter pilots for the Superiority, supposedly to defend against the delvers. Spensa and her flight leader Jorgen make a quick decision, and Spensa disguises herself as the injured pilot, then uses the coordinates and her cytonic ability to hyperjump there. The pilot is injured in the crash landing, but gives Spensa coordinates for Skysight, the center of alien government.

Hoping to capture its hyperdrive, Spensa and her Skyward flight try to rescue the ship, but find there’s no hyperdrive aboard. The ship is damaged by the automated guns on the platforms. She screams cytonically and accidentally contacts an alien pilot, who hyperjumps into Detritus space. Human techs locate a video on one of the orbiting space platforms and, watching it, Spensa has a terrifying vision of delvers (inhabitants of the Nowhere). Humans have been imprisoned on Detritus, guarded by the Krell, and Spensa has found she has cytonic abilities to hear and teleport ships through the Nowhere-the method her ancestors used to get around in space, which can be amplified by an unknown “cytonic hyperdrive.” As the humans have made advances into space, conflict with the Krell has increased. This review contains spoilers.Īt the end of Skyward, Spensa Nightshade has found that reality is a long way from what she’s always believed. It was released by Tor in November of 2019 and runs 461 pages. And this mission is terrifying.This novel is science fiction and #2 in the Skyward series, following the novel Skyward. The only way she can discover what she really is, though, is to leave behind all she knows and enter the Nowhere. And maybe, if she's able to figure out what she is, she could be more than just another pilot in this unfolding war. She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it.

Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator.Įxcept that Spensa is Cytonic. Ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant. And Spensa has seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Now, the Superiority - the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life - has started a galaxy-wide war. What's more, she travelled light-years from home as a spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home. 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. Spensa's life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary.

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