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'''''Adamant''''', previously titled '''''The Lurker''''', is a forthcomingplanned science-fiction novella by [[Brandon Sanderson]].{{wob ref|9178}} It is planned to bewould the first in a series of fivesix or sixepisodic novellas.{{wob ref|891}}

''Adamant'' is the story of Jeffrey Salazar, a war- hero whose research in alien psychology was vital to the winning of a war with an alien race colloquially referred to as the "Knockers". He visits the Armada flagship, the ''Adamant'', to interview the enemy general who was taken captive. During this interview however, Jeff realizes that everything he thought he knew about the Knockers was wrong, and shortly after this the humans are betrayed by a "friendly" group of aliens who gifted the humans with "sidejack" technology, a kind of neural-communication tool. As part of the betrayal the sidejack is turned off, crippling the Armada's command structure. Jeff, who lacks a sidejack, is able to escape with the ''Adamant'' and the rest of the story is him fighting a war against the "nice" aliens by trying to elicit advice from the captive Knocker general. Meanwhile, the general is trying to escape.{{wob ref|891}}

''Adamant'', previously titled "''The Lurker''", originated as a novel co-written with [[Ethan Skarstedt]], one of Brandon's friends who ishas served in the military. They had previously worked together on the short story ''[[Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine]]''. ThePart project temporarily died after Skarstedt completed a novel-length draft. [[Joshua Bilmes]] expressed the feeling that it was not currently marketable and at the timeof Brandon's didinspiration not havefor the time to work on it. Some time later Brandonnovella was interested in re-starting work on the project;idea however,of Skarstedt[[Wikipedia:The was going to be unavailable as a resultSilence of being deployed overseas. Brandon then purchased the draftLambs Skarstedt had completed as a "work-for-hire" intending to do a re-write.{{url ref(novel)|url=http://ethanskar.com/wordpress/books/the-lurker/|text=Ethan Skarstedt's'The blog|site=Ethanskar.com}}Silence Heof completed a novella, renaming itthe Lambs''Adamant'',]] andin plans to work on revisions between drafts of [[Oathbringer]]space.{{wob ref|9178891}}