The Sunlit Man is a 2023 fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, set in his Cosmere universe.

The heat of the sun kills anyone who is exposed to daylight; the planet's inhabitants live on floating cities, always fleeing from the dawn.

Nomad escapes the Cinder King with a woman named Rebeke and her sister Elegy, who has been turned into a Charred.

Nomad promises to bring them there, but in reality this shelter is a small research station from Scadrial,[d] which cannot support the population of Beacon.

Zellion and Rebeke discover a way to power their cities more efficiently, preventing the need for more sacrifices to create sunhearts.

Luther enjoyed the novel, comparing Nomad to the protagonist from Mad Max: Fury Road if one were to "make [Max] a visitor from another planet who doesn’t speak the language, give him an actual personality, [and] make him likable from the get-go".

[5] Charles Papadopoulos of Screen Rant wrote that "as a standalone story, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is perhaps the best work to come from Sanderson's Secret Projects.