Editing Starsight

{{book
|cover=Starsight US Hardcover.jpg
|series=[[Skyward (series)]]
|setting=[[Cytoverse]]
|publisher=Delacorte Press
|ISBN=978-0399555817
|prequel=Skyward
|next=Cytonic (book)|sequel=Cytonic
|released=November 26, 2019
|page-count=457
}}
{{for|Starsight (station)|the in-world space station|pre=This article is about the book}}
{{update|book=Starsight}}
'''''Starsight''''' is the second book in the [[Skyward (series)|Skyward series]] by [[Brandon Sanderson]]. It is the sequel to ''[[Skyward]]''.{{wob ref|10931}}

== Synopsis ==
{{quote|All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she’s a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true—he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.

Spensa is sure there’s more to the story. And she’s sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars—and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself—and she’ll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.|Blurb from [[wikipedia: Penguin Random House|getunderlined.com]]{{url ref|url=https://www.getunderlined.com/books/539344/starsight-by-brandon-sanderson/|text=''Starsight'' Cover Reveal|site=GetUnderlined.com|date=2019-04-25}}}}

== Summary ==
{{for|Summary:Starsight|a complete chapter by chapter summary}}
During a battle with the Krell a couple months after the [[Battle of Alta Second]], a alien named [[Alanik]], of the [[UrDail]] species, crashes on Detritus and gives Spensa the opportunity to take her place and spy on the Krell.{{book ref|starsight|7}}{{book ref|starsight|8}} Alanik was cytonic like Spensa, and imprinted the coordinates for a place called [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]] in her brain.{{book ref|starsight|8}} Spensa hyperjumps for the second time and finds herself at the center of bureaucracy for the [[Superiority]], the alien organization that had kept humans imprisoned on [[Detritus]] for decades.{{book ref|starsight|9}}

Spensa pretends to be Alanik and tries out for the Superiority's new [[Superiority|Delver Resistance Project]], hoping to discover the secret to hyperdrives.{{book ref|starsight|13}} She trains in a flight with [[Vapor]], a non-corporeal [[figment]]; [[Morriumur]], a [[dione|draft]]; [[Hesho]], former king of the [[Kitsen]]; and [[Brade]], a tamed and registered human.{{book ref|starsight|17}} After they report for practie, Hesho renames their flight (originally called Flight 15) [[Flowers of Night's Last Kiss Flight|Flowers of Night's Last Kiss]].{{book ref|starsight|20}}

After discovering that the secret to cytonic hyperdrives was not a piece of equipment but an animal species called [[taynix]], of which [[Doomslug]] was a member, Spensa talked with [[Cuna]] and learned that [[Winzik]] was planning to use the [[delver]]s to destroy [[Detritus]]. Cuna was of a more moderate faction that fought to preserve humans.{{book ref|starsight|32}}{{book ref|starsight|33}}{{book ref|starsight|34}}{{book ref|starsight|35}} She returns to her homeworld to help them fight off the massive invasion force coming to them and has to leave M-Bot behind, although she finds out when she comes back that he's copied his code into the drone they used for spying.{{book ref|starsight|37}}{{book ref|starsight|45}}

Spensa first directed the delver away from Detritus toward [[Starsight (station)]] to buy time, but then comes to save it by showing the delver her point of view.{{book ref|starsight|41}}{{book ref|starsight|44}} She was brought to an infirmary after she was found floating in space and got caught up in Winzick's coup d'etat.{{book ref|starsight|45}}

== Development ==
Brandon started writing ''Starsight'' in mid-2018 after completing ''Skyward''.{{wob ref|11073}} Brandon had some difficulty working through the first draft{{wob ref|10963}} but solved these issues and finished writing the book in the fall of 2018.{{wob ref|10856}} It was released about one year after the release of ''Skyward'', on November 26, 2019.

==Cover Gallery==
{{for|/Covers|a cover gallery of Starsight}}

== Interior Art ==
{{for|/Interior art|a gallery of the book's interior art}}

== Notes ==
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