Skyward - Der Ruf der Sterne

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Paperback, 576 pages

Deutsch language

Published by Knaur.

ISBN:
9783426526866
4 stars (3 reviews)

Wo alle Chancen enden, beginnt die Hoffnung: das packende Science-Fiction-Abenteuer von Bestseller-Autor Brandon Sanderson über die Kraft der Hoffnung und eine zu allem entschlossene junge Frau

Seit Hunderten von Jahren wird die Welt der jungen Spensa von den Krell angegriffen – nur die Flotte der Raumschiff-Piloten steht noch zwischen den überlegenen Aliens und den Menschen.

Hoch oben bei den Sternen als Pilotin ihre Heimat zu schützen ist alles, wovon Spensa jemals geträumt hat. Doch ihre Chancen dafür stehen gleich null: Spensas Vater gilt als Verräter, seit der Pilot urplötzlich sein Team im Stich gelassen hatte und dabei getötet worden war. Jedoch könnte eine unerwartete Wendung Spensa, allen Widerständen zum Trotz, doch noch hinauf zu den Sternen führen ...

Mit Spensa hat Bestseller-Autor Brandon Sanderson eine ebenso einfallsreiche wie furchtlose junge Heldin geschaffen. »Skyward« ist ein Science-Fiction-Abenteuer in bester Blockbuster-Manier.

2 editions

reviewed Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

The real MBot stands for Mushroom not Murder

4 stars

Sure, she jokes that her ship with huge guns should really be classified as a fighter ship, a murderbot even. But no, the ship disagrees: with a partial fungal database, the stealth features must have been intended for swiftly foraging across the land. Fuck yes, finally some good mushroom loving representation in fiction, where mushrooms are cool and neat to check out - not mind controlling monsters.

I think a former classmate recommended the author to me. At first, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it. YA can be really cringey, and there were the seeds that could have been hard cliches. A part of me worried it was going to be an attack on titan or hunger games. In the end, the story really matured to be unique along with commentary on classism. I could tell how committed the author was to building an immersive world …

reviewed Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Fun yet formulaic YA scif

3 stars

This was the first Brandon Sanderson book I've ever read and it was fine.

He's an excellent writer and the story was engaging. The ending left me wondering whether or not I'd read the next one.

This is a very "Hero With a Thousand Faces" story. Spensa, a young woman drawn to her destiny to become a pilot, is haunted by the shadow and mystery of her father's actions as a pilot.

As the story unfolds the perspective widens. And then, towards the end, the perspective gets wider than anyone thought possible. That's also where the book lost me: I am uncertain whether I like the world this story was building towards. There's nothing wrong with it, maybe just not my cup of tea.

reviewed Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

A fun YA hard science fiction yarn

4 stars

I greatly enjoy Brandon Sanderson's fantasy novels. His world-building and magic systems always have an interesting logic - balancing a power's advantages against its limitations or disadvantages. I always feel that those rules would translate directly into a well-tuned RPG.

"Skyward" is the first Sanderson science fiction I've read, but it won't be the last. It's a hard sci-fi YA adventure with a teenage girl protagonist who makes mistakes and embarrasses herself but has you cheering her on every step of the way.

The technology and action scenes are convincing, and I enjoyed the way Sanderson went into some detail about how the spacecraft and their weapons worked.

Overall the plot was a little predictable but didn't detract from the fun of the story, and the final revelation was a good surprise and set-up for the sequel.

Subjects

  • Science fiction