![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly the world is poised on the brink of remarkable change, and the future belongs to these two. ![]() Dusk’s real nemesis, however, is a beast (a “felid”) called Carnassial, who is the first of his kind to be carnivorous, and like Dusk, is shunned by his own. Predictably, the others regard him as a mutant to be shunned-all but his father, who wisely considers his son’s differences as gifts. Only Dusk, youngest son of the colony’s leader, has made an evolutionary leap not only can he fly, he can also see at night, using echo vision. In this ambitious new stand-alone fantasy, he turns the clock back 65 million years to imagine the world of the bats’ earliest ancestors, which he calls “chiropters.” These tree-dwelling creatures are flightless, using their wings (which they call “sails”) to glide through the air, from tree to tree. In his Silverwing series Oppel spun a contemporary fantasy about the world of bats. ![]()
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