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'''''Adamant''''' is a forthcoming science-fiction novella by [[Brandon Sanderson]].{{bws ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson: December 2014|date=2014-12-18}} It is planned to be the first in a series of five or six novellas.{{cite|ConQuest 46 General Q&A}}
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''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.{{cite|ConQuest 46 General Q&A}}
==Development==
''Adamant'', previously titled "''The Lurker''", originated as a novel co-written with [[Ethan Skarstedt]], one of Brandon's friends who is in the military. They had previously worked together on the short story [[Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine]]. The project temporarily died after Skarstedt completed a novel-length draft. [[Joshua Bilmes]] expressed the feeling that it was not currently marketable and at the time Brandon did not have the time to work on it. Some time later Brandon was interested in re-starting work on the project; however, Skarstedt was going to be unavailable as a result of being deployed overseas. Brandon then purchased the draft Skarstedt had completed as a "work-for-hire" intending to do a do a re-write.{{url ref|url=http://ethanskar.com/wordpress/books/the-lurker/|text=Ethan Skarstedt's blog|site=Ethanskar.com}} He completed a novella, renaming it ''Adamant'', and plans to work on revisions between drafts of ''[[Stones Unhallowed]]''.{{bws ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson: December 2014|date=2014-12-18}}
Part of Brandon's inspiration for the novella was the idea of [[Wikipedia:The Silence of the Lambs (novel)|''The Silence of the Lambs'']] in space.{{cite|ConQuest 46 General Q&A}}
While Brandon initially wrote the novella in an alternate-Earth-setting, he is considering reworking the setting so that it takes place in the [[cosmere]].{{cite|ConQuest 46 General Q&A}}
== Notes ==
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