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Defending Elysium

Brandon Sanderson

First published October 2008
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Cytoverse

Notes

This is set several centuries prior to the main Skyward books (see here). First-place winner of the 2007 Premio UPC. The title is marketed as a "novella", but the wordcount given on Coppermind is 14,584, significantly too short to be a novella (17,500).

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Publications (5)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 2008 Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2008 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 94
April 2013 Firstborn / Defending Elysium Dragonsteel Entertainment Collection |4
May 2014 StarShipSofa, No 339 District of Wonders MAGAZINE
November 2021 Defending Elysium Dragonsteel Entertainment Chapbook
December 2025 Tailored Realities Macmillan Audio Collection |7