Isles of the Emberdark

How it opens

Sixth of the Dusk, the last trapper of Patji, gives talks at a park he asked for to preserve the ways of the trappers. Motor vehicles and other gifts of technology come from the Ones Above, aliens whose ship hangs in the sky, and Dusk feels like a man with no purpose. Five years earlier, Dusk paddles his canoe across the open ocean with his birds Kokerlii and Sak, toward Patji, the island he chose to work.

Where it sits

Isles of the Emberdark stands on its own. It needs no other book.

The opening on this page is written only from chapters 1 and 2 of Isles of the Emberdark.