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'''''Adamant''''' is a forthcoming science-fiction novella by [[Brandon Sanderson]].{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson 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}}

''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 [[Oathbringer]].{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson 2014|date=2014-12-18}}

Currently planned as a sequence of six novellas, four being written by Brandon and the others being written by guest authors. As of December 2016 Brandon had only completed the first novella but had recently had a breakthrough on the visuals and worlbuilding. He wanted to wait until he had written each of his novellas before finding co-authors.{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-2016|State of the Sanderson 2016|date=Dec 19th, 2016}}