Defending Elysium: A Cytoverse Novella
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Centuries before Spensa looked skyward from the planet DetritusтАФback on Old Earth before it was lostтАФJason Write faced a crucial question: was humanity ready to join galactic society?
When faster-than-light communications were discovered by a small telephone company in 2071, alien species such as the Tenasi and Varvax overheard them and came to visit Earth. Because the Phone Company controls all communications with the aliens, their operatives like Jason operate above the law.
Now, on the space platform Evensong, one of the Phone CompanyтАЩs scientists has gone missing before surfacing in a hospital with amnesia, and Jason is sent to investigate. Right as he arrives, the body of a murdered Varvax ambassador is discovered, sure to cause a galactic incident. Coln Abrams of the United Intelligence Bureau seizes the opportunity to investigate Jason as he deals with the crisis. This could be the UIBтАЩs chance to discover the Phone CompanyтАЩs secretsтАФhow does FTL communication work, and what is Jason hiding?
Winner of SpainтАЩs UPC Award for Science Fiction in 2007.
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Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn┬о trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning; the Stormlight Archive novels The Way of Kings,Words of Radiance; Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart. In 2013, he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time┬о sequence.
