Starsight (2019)
Starsight is a 2019 new york times bestseller book written by Brandon Sanderson.
Spensa always wanted to fly, and she clawed her way into the cockpit against a whole society that had written her family off. Now she can hear the stars, and what they say frightens her. Starsight is the second book in Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series, sending its stubborn pilot far beyond the caverns of her home planet and deep into enemy territory, where the long war between humanity and the alien Krell looks nothing like she was taught. Start with Skyward first. Everything Spensa believed about her world starts coming apart.
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What is Starsight about?
Spensa always wanted to fly, and she clawed her way into the cockpit against a whole society that had written her family off. Now she can hear the stars, and what they say frightens her. Starsight is the second book in Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series, sending its stubborn pilot far beyond the caverns of her home planet and deep into enemy territory, where the long war between humanity and the alien Krell looks nothing like she was taught. Start with Skyward first. Everything Spensa believed about her world starts coming apart.
When was Starsight published?
Starsight was published in 2019.
Who made Starsight?
Starsight was written by Brandon Sanderson.
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Sanderson writes dogfights like a pilot, so Star Wars is the natural companion, scrappy flyers against an empire that outguns them. The game Ace Combat 7 puts you in that cockpit, all screaming turns and impossible odds. Readers who came for Spensa's stubborn grit will also click with the series The Mandalorian.
Outgunned pilots taking on a much bigger military machine
Spensa claws her way into a cockpit against a caste system that never wanted her there. Ace Combat 7 puts players through relentless aerial combat against a foe with every advantage, Star Wars built its rebellion around scrappy pilots who beat an empire's war machine anyway, Andor follows ordinary people radicalizing into that rebellion piece by piece, and The Mandalorian keeps one lone fighter surviving against better-armed Imperial remnants.
Deep undercover in enemy territory, questioning everything you were taught
Starsight sends Spensa into Krell territory undercover, questioning everything she was taught. Travelers has its operatives take over ordinary lives while hiding another mission underneath, Resident Alien hides its stranded visitor inside a small town with no idea what it's looking at, iZOMBIE keeps its heroine solving cases while concealing what she's become, and The Outer Limits spent decades on people realizing they'd been told the wrong truth.
Anime and manga heroes raised or transformed into weapons of war
Spensa's caste was bred to be expendable pilots in a war they were never told about. Heavenly Delusion follows kids raised in a facility for a purpose barely explained to them, Inuyashiki hands its unlikely hero a body built for combat he never wanted, Ultraman puts one pilot between Earth and forces built to erase it, and Captain Harlock leads a rebel crew against an empire that considers them disposable.