The Reckoners · Book 1
Steelheart
- Published
- 24 September 2013
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781603933971
- Type
- novel
About this book
Steelheart, published September 24, 2013, opens Brandon Sanderson's YA trilogy with David Charleston hunting the seemingly invincible Epic who murdered his father, in a world where superpowers turned their holders into tyrants.
Its place in The Reckoners
Steelheart is book 1 in the The Reckoners series. It is followed by Mitosis. See the full The Reckoners reading order.
Ten years after a mysterious astronomical event called Calamity gave a fraction of humanity superpowers, those 'Epics' have become the world's new ruling class -- and almost universally, absolute power has made them tyrants. David Charleston watched an Epic called Steelheart murder his father in cold blood as a child, and has spent the decade since obsessively cataloguing Epic weaknesses in hopes of joining the Reckoners, a resistance cell that hunts and kills Epics using intelligence rather than matching…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781603933971