Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson · 2013
Ordinary people woke up with superpowers and promptly became tyrants. David saw Steelheart bleed once, and has spent his life planning to make it happen again.
Book Series
The Reckoners
4 books, listed in publication order.
Mitosis
by Brandon Sanderson · 2013
A Reckoners novella set between Steelheart and Firefight, in which a newly free Newcago discovers the Epics have not finished with it.
Firefight
by Brandon Sanderson · 2015
David heads to a drowned Manhattan hunting the Epic who may hold the answer, except she is the one person he does not want to kill.
Calamity
by Brandon Sanderson · 2016
The finale of the Reckoners trilogy, where David has to face what the powers actually cost, and what his old mentor has become.
About This Series
In a world where ordinary people have gained superhuman powers, every one of them has turned tyrant. The Reckoners are the ordinary humans who study and assassinate them. The trilogy runs from Steelheart in 2013 to Calamity in 2016, and its best idea is treating superpowers as an engineering problem: every Epic has a weakness, and the work is finding it. Mitosis is a short novella set between the first two books.
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