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On 12/7/2019 at 10:43 AM, The Traveller said:

Finished starsight just now. 
At the outset I have to say that it was a good book, a lot happened that I had not expected. 
 

I did not expect so much to have changed on detritus, humans have made a lot of progress, fighting with krell now happens in deep space, they have platform nine, they are able to get more acclivity rings! 
 

I also did not expect Spensa to go to starsight or that starsight will be an alien city! 
 

I loved reading about all the different alien species and the different factions of power and their views on humans. Loved the diones, kitsen, figments!! 
 

I can not believed we already learned what had happened to deteritus how it was destroyed by the Delvers! we got see a delver maze and then a real delver! And guess what they are not hateful creatures at all! 
 

The doomslug bit was obvious the moment we heard of that scream and I think it could have been done sooner! 
 

I have always believed that Jorgen will be cytonic too his family The science wing had mutinied with the engine crew 
I am glad we saw progress there. 
 

I am glad that Cuba was genuine and brade was bad news from the start

 

but it ended at such a cliffhanger! When is the next book coming!! 
 

- where is Spensa heading, what will she find there! How will she get out! 
- what is happened to m-bot!! I hope he will be fine! 
- I hope Cuna makes it safely to Detritus and humans will have allies in diones, kitsen, figments and alanik’s people atleast

- what of Jorgen and he found all those slugs! 
- and what will happen to mbot - an AI once he goes into the nowhere! 

 

It is really very ironic that the krell or I think they are Varvex claim to have achieved the primary intelligence and yet they act so aggressive and stupid as to fight with humans without giving them a chance at peace even, summoning a delver knowing the history, organising a military coup!! It is all  pure nonsense after all! Ha!! You sir, winzig, are as aggressive as they come! 

How did you connect screaming and slugs together, seems like many pple are but I'm lost here XD

On 12/2/2019 at 6:36 AM, old aggie said:

I loved Starsight just as much as Skyward, and perhaps even more. I love how Spensa is growing and deepening. I'd say I want books 3 and 4 right now, buuuuuut ... I want Stormlight 4 and Wax & Wayne 4 even more, so Spensa will (hopefully) have to wait. :-)

Re: cytonics in Jorgen's family - This is the "big secret" that I meant in my post a couple months ago (https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/86947-skyward-discussion-spoilers/#comment-927354). I remember thinking the first time I read Skyward, "What kind of a last name is 'Weight'?" "Weight" is just too close to "Write," as in Jason Write from Defending Elysium, so I guessed that Jorgen is a Write. We'll see if I'm correct down the line. (I'm usually wrong, LOL - for example, my wild theory on that linked post.)

Re: Gran-Gran - I loved the part where she communicated with Spensa over that vast distance. Maybe Gran-Gran is blind in the same way as Jason Write was in DE - i.e., she can use cytonics to see. I wonder if she was always blind, or if cytonics somehow took her sight?

Re: the doomslugs screaming - Remember, Brade was also screaming into the nowhere, when she was trying to bring the delver, so maybe it's not screams of pain? It's a possibility.

Re: M-Bot - I'm wondering how long it'll take Isaac's daughter to forgive Brandon (https://www.brandonsanderson.com/the-m-bot-sticker-you-never-knew-you-needed-is-here/). Seeing as there were multiple ways Spensa could have saved him, and with how many times he talked about death even back in Skyward (some strong foreshdowing there), his "dying" has to be significant. I have a theory, but if I'm gonna keep it close to the vest - too spoiler-ish if I'm correct, & I for one hate spoilers passionately.

 

A couple more thoughts:

• M-Bot protected Spensa when the Krell tried to overwrite her brain (like happened to her dad). What protection will she have now? (kinda scary)
• What if Jorgen & team find the remains of M-Bot's pilot in that cave? and maybe some old tech or recordings?
• Is Cuna really dead? Hmmmm...

Oooh the doomslug and brade theory, I'm down for it. 

Wondering, was it ever cleared in the book why Chaser threw off his pin before going to his final battle? 

Hey, little late to this forum but did anyone notice towards the end when Spin shifted from bwing skyward 10 to skyward 11 ? Or was it intentional since she was flying with Mbot at the time?