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Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
5.0
SPENSA NIGHTSHADE GET YOUR ASS BACK TO JORGEN OR SO HELP ME!
“You don’t care. You never care about me! You left me!”—Page 12
M-BOT SWEETIE I CARE ABOUT YOU NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don’t worry, Cuna was about to be eat by a fuck of star-squid thing but they’re fine now. I really don’t know how anyone is going to explain the novella events to Spensa.
“Scud. I’d told Cobb that Cuna’s faction wanted peace. Winzik and Brade could use that to lure Cobb into talks—then double cross him.”—Page 14
The novellas are suffering.
“I didn’t get a good look at this last guy—he was furry and roughly the size of a refrigerator.”—Page 17
….Chewey?
“Then a scudding dinosaur came rampaging into camp—with a mustachioed human man riding on its back.”—Page 27
Okay Brandon you were having too much fun, time to take away your laptop for the day.
“‘Chet Starfinder! Interdimensional galatic explorer!’
‘That’s an awesome name!’
‘Thanks! I made it up myself!’”—Page 29
Way. Too much. Fun. No fun allowed.
“Honestly, if I had to lay bets on me, M-Bot, or the slug surviving in this jungle alone, she’d top the list.”—Page 31
TRUE BUT DON’T ABANADON YOUR SLUG YOU MONSTER!
“‘We met one!’ M-Bot exclaimed. ‘Well, Spensa did. I was being murdered at the time. But I heard about it on the news! Sounded scary.’”—Page 32
I LAUGHED SO HARD.
“‘Technically,’ M-Bot said, hovering a few centimeters closer to him, ‘the word ‘sentient’ just means an ability to perceive and/or feel. Many people misuse this word. Instead, ‘sapience’ is the word for self-awareness—or intelligence like a human being. Which if you think about it is a human-centric definition. Those rascally humans and their linguistic biases.’”—Page 33
M-Bot, I have missed you so much, please reunite with the slugs.
Also Spensa getting mugged at the entrance reminds me of Elantris.
“Honor, valor.”—Page 46
*Squints*
“Cacti are so neat, they make me want to dance. Is that a good poem? Will you rate it on a scale of one to ten?”—Page 50
M-Bot is so cute I could punch something…no wonder Spensa is like this.
WAIT A MINUTE WAIT A MINUTE WAIT A MINUTE! CHET IS M-BOT’S OG PILOT.
I don’t like how suspicious Spensa is but please let this be reallllllllllll.
“It’s like finding out that your father hates you…”—Page 57
Brandon Sanderson, I will end you.
“‘What did you do to the Us?’ they’d been referring to the one I’d separated out.”—Page 65
So they’re like the cosmic bug people of Stormlight?
Can Spensa time travel?
“‘You can’t just hit people.’
‘Didn’t you hit Jorgen basically all the time?’”—Page 88
Called out.
“That was when the Phone Company—a human organization—gave hyperdrives to the people of Earth.”—Page 96
I’m sorry but have we heard of this “Phone Company” before…I should have reread the books.
I wonder if the delver is creating Chet for Spensa. He’s like her father but also fills in the holes of who M-Bot’s pilot is. He’s bad with time, too.
The diones are privileged lmao.
“but I do have to say…boy took care of himself.”—Page 119
ASLDJFLKSJFLKJSDLKFJSLFKJSLKFJSLKDJFSLKJFL
“‘I can fix that,’ I said, reaching for the zipper.”—Page 121
LKSJDLKFJSLKDF SPENSA YOU WILL GIVE THIS GOOD BOY A HEART ATTACK AHHHHH!
He’ll report this Cobb alright so I think this means this takes place after Sunreach but before ReDawn. Good.
You’re mutants.
Wait we didn’t hear about Jorgen sending people to inspect the cave. Weird.
“But you know how my parents are. I love, Spensa, but…they’re partially responsible.”—Page 123
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ASDKFHSKJDFKS HIS PARENTS ARE TRYING TO SET HIM UP DURING THIS TIME OMG.
THERE’S RED PANDA CREATURES AHHHHHH!!!
SPENSA IF YOU BURY YOUR PIN I SWEAR TO GOD I’LL—hey she didn’t…um…I can’t tell if this character development or I was wrong and this’ll come back to bite in her in the ass.
Hnnnnnnnnnnnng I don’t know what the right decision is.
These are very nice pirates.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO CHET I’M SORRY I DIDN’T TRUST YOUUUUUUUU!
“Well, Chet said. I will recuperate here, I think. You soldier forward! Yes.”—Page 149
STOP IT MY HEARTTTTTT! I think at this point even if Chet yeets Spensa into the endless void, I won’t be mad. I’M SO SORRYYYYY!
Whoever is cockblocking Spinface needs a slap.
I’ve met this rock for five minutes but I would die for Shiver.
“I’m trying not to be too offended by the AI scrubbing they tried to do. It’s basically the equivalent of feeding me poison. Fortunately, in this case that ‘feeding’ involved a comically large spoon a big spin that said ‘not poison.’”—Page 165
LMAO
Why doesn’t the superiority develop drugs to get people to be nonaggressive.
KAJSLDFJLKSDFFLSJDFL OH NO SPENSA IS FORGETTING THINGS AHHHHH!!!
“But in the data, I found unexpected truths. Many so-called lesser species weren’t suffering the causality rates from intraspecies murder that we projected. They were known as aggressive species so they should have been killing one another at horrific rates. Yet…that just wasn’t the case.”—Pages 180-181
I mean we did live with each other for thousands of years without going extinct.
“Oh, how wonderful! I hate it!”—Page 190
Lol.
Nooooooooooooooooo.
Jason Write? Why does that name sound so familiar.
Y’know what’s funny about a lot of these earth references? I get like only have of them lol.
A contest? This really is Stormlite.
Peg is Cytonic?
“Projecting illusions into the minds of others—making oneself appear different, even feel different.”—Page 227
Interesting.
“But I’d never heard of a ‘trashy romance novel,’ as Maksim had named this one. It was written from the perspective of the Cambrian species, who had a lot of tentacles and stuff.”—Page 248
AHHH OH NO!!!
“Their courtship rituals were surprisingly similar to human ones—if way, way more sappy. Or maybe that was the genre.”—Page 248
Oh. I thought it would be…well…y’know…
“I didn’t really care about the plot; I was more intrigued by the book’s nature. It was just…so fluffy. The protagonist spent her time romancing three different guys, and her most urgent question was deciding which one to bring with her on vacation.”—Page 248
EXCUSE YOU!
Okay who’s Darkshadow.
“That was strange. I had yet to meet a nonhuman from the Superiority who used a lightlance the way we did in the DDF.”—Page 258
……….oh no.
OH MY GOD I THOUGHT IT WAS SPEN’S DAD BUT IT’S NOT IT’S HESHO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
OH NO HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY OF HIS MEMORIES!!!
NO HESHO BABY!!!! SPENSA GO GET THEM!
Aksjhdfklskdjflksdflksjdflks THE LION KING AHHHHHHH
Interesting that stories are the things that stay longer. It’s the same for Chet.
“At least parts are familiar to me.”—Page 270
You either know Hamlet or you remember the CLASSIC 90S ANIMATED MOVIE AND NOT THAT ABONIMATION REMAKE. That was lost to time and no one cried.
Spensa why didn’t you just adjust your pin?
“The AI and I have been bonding,”—Page 292
ALSJDLKFJSLFKJSD GOOD!!!
“‘Like that time all the parents got together to watch their kids march when I was in school, and my mother was forced to admit to the other moms that I was the one who’d glued her homemade suit of wooden ‘power armor’ to her uniform.’
‘I wish I’d known you back then,’ M-Bot said. ‘You should like such a capricious child.’
‘Uh, yeah. Child.’
I ‘d been sixteen.”—Page 296
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
“I know! Also: WHAT THE HELL, SPENSA?”—Page 312
Oh my god.
“I am you sworn companion.”—Page 313
AISJDLFJSLKDFJLKSDJ AHHHHHHHHH
Is this all just a metaphor for the fact we can’t live in stories and that we need to face reality. Rude.
LKAJSDKFJSLKDJFLSKDJFJLS OH SPENSA NIGHTSHADE HOW DARE YOU BURY THAT PIN.
Wait can all the slugs cameo like this or is just in the nowhere.
“You talk smarter now,”—Page 343
I choose to interrupt this as the slugs think we’re stupid outside the nowhere and not that Spensa has gotten better with her powers.
“Poop!”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
THERE’S TONS OF TYPES OF SLUGS. AHHHHHH!
Man if this was the cosmere, I’d be screaming about a seon.
I KNEW IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I KNEW THAT CHET WAS ACTUALLY JUST THE DELVER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
“Don’t hate me, Spensa. Please don’t hate me! They have abandoned me. They want to destroy me. You’re…the only one…I have now.”—Page 351
Oh, it’s okay. I love him.
“‘And you wanted to come into the belt and help me, so you made a homunculus…’
He nodded eagerly. ‘Like from Gran-Gran’s story about the alchemist! Yes, that’s a good analogy. I made a Chet homunculus.”—Page 351
WAS THAT A FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST REFERENCE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Delvers came from AIs. Oh. We made the delvers. RIP.
“‘Just so you all know,’ Chet said from behind my seat. ‘I’m secretly a monster from outside space and time.’
‘Ah yes,’ Hesho said. ‘Deep inside, aren’t we all monsters?’
‘No. I’m pretty sure you’re not.’”—Page 358
Oh my god.
“Like courage, M-Bot. Fear create courage.”—Page 367
Is Spensa quoting Jorgen or did Brandon write the wrong favorite quote lol.
Alright M-Bot go become a delver and defeat them.
“You don’t care. You never care about me! You left me!”—Page 12
M-BOT SWEETIE I CARE ABOUT YOU NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don’t worry, Cuna was about to be eat by a fuck of star-squid thing but they’re fine now. I really don’t know how anyone is going to explain the novella events to Spensa.
“Scud. I’d told Cobb that Cuna’s faction wanted peace. Winzik and Brade could use that to lure Cobb into talks—then double cross him.”—Page 14
The novellas are suffering.
“I didn’t get a good look at this last guy—he was furry and roughly the size of a refrigerator.”—Page 17
….Chewey?
“Then a scudding dinosaur came rampaging into camp—with a mustachioed human man riding on its back.”—Page 27
Okay Brandon you were having too much fun, time to take away your laptop for the day.
“‘Chet Starfinder! Interdimensional galatic explorer!’
‘That’s an awesome name!’
‘Thanks! I made it up myself!’”—Page 29
Way. Too much. Fun. No fun allowed.
“Honestly, if I had to lay bets on me, M-Bot, or the slug surviving in this jungle alone, she’d top the list.”—Page 31
TRUE BUT DON’T ABANADON YOUR SLUG YOU MONSTER!
“‘We met one!’ M-Bot exclaimed. ‘Well, Spensa did. I was being murdered at the time. But I heard about it on the news! Sounded scary.’”—Page 32
I LAUGHED SO HARD.
“‘Technically,’ M-Bot said, hovering a few centimeters closer to him, ‘the word ‘sentient’ just means an ability to perceive and/or feel. Many people misuse this word. Instead, ‘sapience’ is the word for self-awareness—or intelligence like a human being. Which if you think about it is a human-centric definition. Those rascally humans and their linguistic biases.’”—Page 33
M-Bot, I have missed you so much, please reunite with the slugs.
Also Spensa getting mugged at the entrance reminds me of Elantris.
“Honor, valor.”—Page 46
*Squints*
“Cacti are so neat, they make me want to dance. Is that a good poem? Will you rate it on a scale of one to ten?”—Page 50
M-Bot is so cute I could punch something…no wonder Spensa is like this.
WAIT A MINUTE WAIT A MINUTE WAIT A MINUTE! CHET IS M-BOT’S OG PILOT.
I don’t like how suspicious Spensa is but please let this be reallllllllllll.
“It’s like finding out that your father hates you…”—Page 57
Brandon Sanderson, I will end you.
“‘What did you do to the Us?’ they’d been referring to the one I’d separated out.”—Page 65
So they’re like the cosmic bug people of Stormlight?
Can Spensa time travel?
“‘You can’t just hit people.’
‘Didn’t you hit Jorgen basically all the time?’”—Page 88
Called out.
“That was when the Phone Company—a human organization—gave hyperdrives to the people of Earth.”—Page 96
I’m sorry but have we heard of this “Phone Company” before…I should have reread the books.
I wonder if the delver is creating Chet for Spensa. He’s like her father but also fills in the holes of who M-Bot’s pilot is. He’s bad with time, too.
The diones are privileged lmao.
“but I do have to say…boy took care of himself.”—Page 119
ASLDJFLKSJFLKJSDLKFJSLFKJSLKFJSLKDJFSLKJFL
“‘I can fix that,’ I said, reaching for the zipper.”—Page 121
LKSJDLKFJSLKDF SPENSA YOU WILL GIVE THIS GOOD BOY A HEART ATTACK AHHHHH!
He’ll report this Cobb alright so I think this means this takes place after Sunreach but before ReDawn. Good.
You’re mutants.
Wait we didn’t hear about Jorgen sending people to inspect the cave. Weird.
“But you know how my parents are. I love, Spensa, but…they’re partially responsible.”—Page 123
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ASDKFHSKJDFKS HIS PARENTS ARE TRYING TO SET HIM UP DURING THIS TIME OMG.
THERE’S RED PANDA CREATURES AHHHHHH!!!
SPENSA IF YOU BURY YOUR PIN I SWEAR TO GOD I’LL—hey she didn’t…um…I can’t tell if this character development or I was wrong and this’ll come back to bite in her in the ass.
Hnnnnnnnnnnnng I don’t know what the right decision is.
These are very nice pirates.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO CHET I’M SORRY I DIDN’T TRUST YOUUUUUUUU!
“Well, Chet said. I will recuperate here, I think. You soldier forward! Yes.”—Page 149
STOP IT MY HEARTTTTTT! I think at this point even if Chet yeets Spensa into the endless void, I won’t be mad. I’M SO SORRYYYYY!
Whoever is cockblocking Spinface needs a slap.
I’ve met this rock for five minutes but I would die for Shiver.
“I’m trying not to be too offended by the AI scrubbing they tried to do. It’s basically the equivalent of feeding me poison. Fortunately, in this case that ‘feeding’ involved a comically large spoon a big spin that said ‘not poison.’”—Page 165
LMAO
Why doesn’t the superiority develop drugs to get people to be nonaggressive.
KAJSLDFJLKSDFFLSJDFL OH NO SPENSA IS FORGETTING THINGS AHHHHH!!!
“But in the data, I found unexpected truths. Many so-called lesser species weren’t suffering the causality rates from intraspecies murder that we projected. They were known as aggressive species so they should have been killing one another at horrific rates. Yet…that just wasn’t the case.”—Pages 180-181
I mean we did live with each other for thousands of years without going extinct.
“Oh, how wonderful! I hate it!”—Page 190
Lol.
Nooooooooooooooooo.
Jason Write? Why does that name sound so familiar.
Y’know what’s funny about a lot of these earth references? I get like only have of them lol.
A contest? This really is Stormlite.
Peg is Cytonic?
“Projecting illusions into the minds of others—making oneself appear different, even feel different.”—Page 227
Interesting.
“But I’d never heard of a ‘trashy romance novel,’ as Maksim had named this one. It was written from the perspective of the Cambrian species, who had a lot of tentacles and stuff.”—Page 248
AHHH OH NO!!!
“Their courtship rituals were surprisingly similar to human ones—if way, way more sappy. Or maybe that was the genre.”—Page 248
Oh. I thought it would be…well…y’know…
“I didn’t really care about the plot; I was more intrigued by the book’s nature. It was just…so fluffy. The protagonist spent her time romancing three different guys, and her most urgent question was deciding which one to bring with her on vacation.”—Page 248
EXCUSE YOU!
Okay who’s Darkshadow.
“That was strange. I had yet to meet a nonhuman from the Superiority who used a lightlance the way we did in the DDF.”—Page 258
……….oh no.
OH MY GOD I THOUGHT IT WAS SPEN’S DAD BUT IT’S NOT IT’S HESHO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
OH NO HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY OF HIS MEMORIES!!!
NO HESHO BABY!!!! SPENSA GO GET THEM!
Aksjhdfklskdjflksdflksjdflks THE LION KING AHHHHHHH
Interesting that stories are the things that stay longer. It’s the same for Chet.
“At least parts are familiar to me.”—Page 270
You either know Hamlet or you remember the CLASSIC 90S ANIMATED MOVIE AND NOT THAT ABONIMATION REMAKE. That was lost to time and no one cried.
Spensa why didn’t you just adjust your pin?
“The AI and I have been bonding,”—Page 292
ALSJDLKFJSLFKJSD GOOD!!!
“‘Like that time all the parents got together to watch their kids march when I was in school, and my mother was forced to admit to the other moms that I was the one who’d glued her homemade suit of wooden ‘power armor’ to her uniform.’
‘I wish I’d known you back then,’ M-Bot said. ‘You should like such a capricious child.’
‘Uh, yeah. Child.’
I ‘d been sixteen.”—Page 296
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
“I know! Also: WHAT THE HELL, SPENSA?”—Page 312
Oh my god.
“I am you sworn companion.”—Page 313
AISJDLFJSLKDFJLKSDJ AHHHHHHHHH
Is this all just a metaphor for the fact we can’t live in stories and that we need to face reality. Rude.
LKAJSDKFJSLKDJFLSKDJFJLS OH SPENSA NIGHTSHADE HOW DARE YOU BURY THAT PIN.
Wait can all the slugs cameo like this or is just in the nowhere.
“You talk smarter now,”—Page 343
I choose to interrupt this as the slugs think we’re stupid outside the nowhere and not that Spensa has gotten better with her powers.
“Poop!”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
THERE’S TONS OF TYPES OF SLUGS. AHHHHHH!
Man if this was the cosmere, I’d be screaming about a seon.
I KNEW IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I KNEW THAT CHET WAS ACTUALLY JUST THE DELVER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
“Don’t hate me, Spensa. Please don’t hate me! They have abandoned me. They want to destroy me. You’re…the only one…I have now.”—Page 351
Oh, it’s okay. I love him.
“‘And you wanted to come into the belt and help me, so you made a homunculus…’
He nodded eagerly. ‘Like from Gran-Gran’s story about the alchemist! Yes, that’s a good analogy. I made a Chet homunculus.”—Page 351
WAS THAT A FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST REFERENCE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Delvers came from AIs. Oh. We made the delvers. RIP.
“‘Just so you all know,’ Chet said from behind my seat. ‘I’m secretly a monster from outside space and time.’
‘Ah yes,’ Hesho said. ‘Deep inside, aren’t we all monsters?’
‘No. I’m pretty sure you’re not.’”—Page 358
Oh my god.
“Like courage, M-Bot. Fear create courage.”—Page 367
Is Spensa quoting Jorgen or did Brandon write the wrong favorite quote lol.
Alright M-Bot go become a delver and defeat them.