Cytonic: The Third Skyward Novel

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A partir de ese primer tercio de novela la cosa mejora al aparecer nuevos personajes. Y el último tercio está bien. Hay revelaciones sobre los protagonistas y sobre otros conceptos que antes no había por donde cogerlos. Gracias a eso sube hasta las tres estrellas, que a puntito he estado de clavarle dos. El cierre...meh!

Dealing with loneliness, identity, duty, potential, and what makes us who we are is not an easy fit. All of these topics are hard-hitting and personal - even if we don't experience them exactly as Spensa does - and having had the time to explore them was gratifying. I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes. All people must accept that we have the potential to do terrible things. It is part of seeing our place in the universe, our heritage, and our natures. But in acceptance, we gain strength, for potential can be refused. Any hero who could have been a monster is more heroic for the choices he or she made to walk another road.” Buen libro, sí que me ha gustado. Puede que no llegue a ser tan espectacular como el primer volumen, pero he encontrado varios detalles que me han parecido muy interesantes, como la combinación entre fantasía y ciencia ficción que nos ofrece para esta ocasión Sanderson. También he disfrutado de las aventuras, conversaciones e indecisiones de Spensa, la protagonista, siendo esta una de las razones por las que ahora siento un cariño especial por esta chica extrovertida; cariño que no logré sentir en los volúmenes anteriores. Me he reído, me he sorprendido, me he metido de cabeza en esta historia fascinante de Sanderson, y la verdad, es que me siento muy satisfecho de que haya vivido una grata experiencia con esta lectura.With rumours of delvers being close to reemergence -- possibly fuelled by Winzik's propaganda -- Superiority set up a program to train people to fight them. [16] They also developed a supposed weapon that could get rid of them, though in reality, the "weapon" was a cytonic device that would lure a delver to a different planet. This was the primary method by which Winzik would "control" the delvers: set up the lure with coordinates to whichever place he wished destroyed. [13] Reemergence [ edit ]

Delvers are incapable of most emotions; rather, they reflect all that they sense outside. [11] This being said, they can hear and perceive any intrusion into the nowhere. It appears to cause them immense pain; as such, they utterly despise cytonics, and grow more hateful the longer one holds their attention. [13] [14] Extreme and prolonged cytonic "screaming" can and will cause them to transition to the physical world in an attempt to quiet it down. [15] Superiority scholars speculate that a species needs to develop particularly skilled or powerful cytonics for delvers to pay attention. [16] The name "delver" is mentioned once in Skyward before being properly introduced in Starsight; whenever the delvers are referenced in Skyward, Spensa uses "the eyes" instead. On the other hand, at least within the heart, a cytonic can push their own thoughts onto a delver, bringing their mind down in scale to see from a living beings' perspective. This correlates with increase in empathy in the delver, and sudden ability to feel more emotions, including regret and horror. [11] Safeguards [ edit ]Spensa is still my favourite thing about these books—I just adore her fire, her determination, and her love for stories! What's the purpose of emotions if so often we have to deliberately act counter to what they're telling us?" And, naturally, most of this book's laugh-out-loud moments are credited to our favorite not-so-artificial intelligence spaceship personality, M-Bot. These books wouldn't be what they are without him, and much of the reason why Cytonic was my favorite is his comedic relief. After the events of Starsight, M-Bot is dealing with a lot of new feelings- being an AI, emotions aren't something he's accustomed to, and he takes every opportunity in this book to bother Spensa about having them. It had me clutching my stomach in a fit of giggles, and yet by the end his humor turned into something I didn't expect, but appreciated nonetheless: an elaborate study of emotions and how/why we react to them. It shouldn't be possible for a robot to have character development, but it seems BrandoSando makes the impossible possible. And seeing M-Bot try to understand jokes and insults had me deceased. Es mi segundo “pinchazo” consecutivo con Sanderson y eso ya me preocupa. ¿Soy yo el culpable o ha bajado él la calidad? You are not a coward, nor are you selfish, for realizing you have options, warrior-sister. You cannot be defined by your questions. Only by what you do with them."

From the dogfights to the interactions between the characters. All of it was so enjoyable and exciting, so enthusiastic, and it filled my heart. After all, this series has always had a lot of energy and good cheer.It's entertaining, and dives into the deeper mysteries surrounding cytonics and all that, and she learns and grows all along the way, and that *is* important for the overall arc.. but at least half of it could have been montaged, and the rest given over to moving the real world/actual story along. Spensa begins to lose her memory and sense of time as a result of being in the Nowhere and only remembers her identity because she has an "icon" resembling her father's pin and memory dust. She is caught trying to steal a ship by the Broadsiders pirate organization and becomes one of their members. Spensa fights a mysterious figure from the Cannonade faction, a rival pirate gang, and becomes the pirate champion. She also discovers that the Cannonade's representative is actually Hesho, who has completely lost his memory. In a Reddit Q&A leading up to the release of the first book, Brandon stated that the trilogy would likely become a four book series. [2] In his 2018 State of the Sanderson, he stated that due to the amount of time needed to complete Rhythm of War, Cytonic "[wouldn't] be written until 2020, for a spring 2021 release." [3] In the 2019 State of the Sanderson, this was updated to writing in late 2020 for a "likely" 2021 release. [4]

So far it feels its just been a repeat every book: Spensa finds a new group of people which leads into bonding & training with them. Skyward it made sense to have that, and then I could understand why it happened again in Starsight since she was infiltrating it, but then to recycle it again in Cytonic??? Ngl I got pretty tired of this pattern, like I don't have an attachment to any of the new characters introduced since Starsight except for Chet, Hesho, and Alanik (and even them—compared to Skyward Flight...). At some point in early 2020, Brandon was planning on writing the book with two alternating points of view, Spensa and someone else, but later decided on doing a series of audio novellas to accompany the book's release instead of including the second point-of-view character. [5] The Nowhere is occupied by rival pirate gangs controlling areas of fragments, and as Spensa, M-Bot, and Chet traverse different fragments containing diverse environments, they hope to cross through the pirate lands into No Man's Land, the area surrounding the lightburst. Spensa, who was told to follow the "Path of Elders" by her delver ally, journeys with Chet to find different portal stones placed throughout fragments. Through the first few portals, she and Chet learn through memories that being cytonic was actually a mutation caused by the Nowhere and somewhere overlapping, and that the fragments were formed as a result of this overlap. They witness various species conversing with one another throughout time by entering the Nowhere, which was what allowed humans to visit other species and eventually led to the human wars. I know I keep saying this, but there is so much world building that it interrupts my reading slightly...all these new aliens, and I forgot which was which! (Maybe that’s just my sleep deprived brain though...) For sure there's no doubt at all that I scudding loved Spensa's character growth. IT WAS SCUDDING AMAZING OHMYGOD. The things she discovered about herself and coming to terms with certain realizations?? I actually got really emotional at the end of the book and of course that's no surprise considering how well written Sanderson's characters always are.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed parts of it. I loved Spensa's character development, I mean we see her grow up so much over the series! I also loved M-Bot again (no surprise there!), and his growth was amazing! I just adored how he added humour to the story! Also Doomslug💛 En este libro tenemos a Spensa en el “niguna-parte”, una especie de universo paralelo donde “flotan” como islas en un mar de “nada”. Pero, hay que fastidiarse, hay aire respirable (este tema ni se menciona) y hasta se puede saltar de isla en isla cuando pasan cerca. Sí, hay que fastidiarse de nuevo. El sistema de “magia” citónica nos va desvelando en qué consiste y bueno, bien, acepto pulpo como animal de compañía porque no me queda otra, pero se va sacando de la manga opciones de esa citónica porque sí, porque él lo vale. Eso siempre me parece hacer un poco trampa y es algo que tampoco me ha gustado. A fully manifested delver is titanic in scale, enough so to have its own gravitational pull. The one summoned by Brade is somewhere between a massive moon and a small planet, while the one called over Detritus in ancient past was capable of enveloping the entirety of the planet. [9] [3] Interior [ edit ] Delvers have a strange relationship with tangibility -- while the delver maze has discernible, unpassable walls and floors, the delver itself can seemingly pass through physical matter, allowing it to envelop entire planets. [3] [10] However, standard shields, such as ones mounted on starfighters, can stop the delver from passing through, at least for a time. [17]