Skyward : [No. 1 : Skyward

Spensa's World Has Been Under Attack For Hundreds Of Years. An Alien Race Called The Krell Leads Onslaught After Onslaught From The Sky In A Never-ending Campaign To Destroy Humankind. Humanity's Only Defense Is To Take To Their Ships And Fight The Enemy In The Skies. Pilots Have Become The Heroes Of What's Left Of The Human Race. Spensa Has Always Dreamed Of Being One Of Them; Of Soaring Above Earth And Proving Her Bravery. 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. No One Will Let Spensa Forget What Her Father Did, But She Is Still Determined To Fly. And The Krell Just Made That A Possibility. They've Doubled Their Fleet, Making Spensa's World Twice As Dangerous . . . But Their Desperation To Survive Might Just Take Her Skyward . . . Praise For Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times Bestselling Reckoners Series: 'another Win For Sanderson . . . He's Simply A Brilliant Writer' Patrick Rothfuss 'action-packed' Ew.com 'compelling . . . Sanderson Uses Plot Twists That He Teases Enough For Readers To Pick Up On To Distract From The More Dramatic Reveals He Has In Store' Av Club Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's only defence is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human race. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them; of soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. 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. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They've doubled their fleet, making Spensa's world twice as dangerous . . . but their desperation to survive might just take her skyward . . **SPENSA'S WORLD HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR DECADES.** 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 her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa the daughter of a coward, her chances of attending Flight School slim to none. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars. This description comes from the publisher. Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possibleassuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul. From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.