Fantasy

Isles of the Emberdark

by Brandon Sanderson

Sixth of the Dusk has spent his life trapping Aviar on the lethal island of Patji, but extraterrestrial pressure forces his people into a race to modernize before outsiders can dominate them. Seeking a way to preserve his culture without freezing it in the past, Dusk enters the emberdark through a mystical portal and encounters a much larger Cosmere. His path intersects with Starling, a young dragon trapped in human form whose indebted starship crew is searching for a discovery that could buy their freedom. Brandon Sanderson expands the earlier Sixth of the Dusk novella into a far-future Cosmere novel about cultural survival, interstellar power, independence, and the cost of technological change.