THE SORCERESS OF SKY SERPENTS

An adult, literary fantasy novel in which a desperate young woman seeks power from a Sorceress to help protect her village from Raiders, who are attempting to colonize the Alliance of Six Rivers.

The Sorceress of Sky Serpents takes places on a terraformed, life-supporting planet on the edge of the Milky Way where six nations, based on Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast, have been living for thousands of years. Their lives of peace and balance are shattered when Raiders from the South, directed by a people the Northerners know only as The Abominations, have stepped up the frequency and intensity of their attacks, killing indiscriminately, stealing food, kidnapping slaves, and carrying away the technology on which the Northerners rely.

Tky is the eldest daughter of the fearsome Guardian of the Eagle Clan. Despite Tky's rank, and her mother's expectations, Tky is an outcast. Having been raised mostly by her Shaman grandfather, she seems too comfortable with dead spirits and Forest People, a sentient race of non-human great apes. The villagers, and even her beloved sister, are coming to believe that she is a witchor worse.

After her mother is killed in battle, Tky is determined to prove her worth by any means, and she sets out on a journey up the coast to a mysteriously abandoned village whose name no one will speak, determined to meet a sorceress who has promised her the gift of fire for a suspiciously low price.

Eden Robinson is the author of the bestselling Trickster trilogy, starting with Son of a Trickster (2017), a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a CBC Canada Reads contender. The sequel Trickster Drift (2018) won the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize for Fiction. The third volume, Return of the Trickster, was called "a gift" by the Vancouver Sun and "funny, tender, and emotionally true" by the Toronto Star. Her first novel, Monkey Beach (2000), winner of the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize and a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, is a perennial bestseller. In 2017 Eden won the $50,000 Writers Trust of Canada Fellowship. In 2022 she was awarded the Blue Metropolis First Peoples' Literary Prize in Montreal. Currently she is serving on the jury for the Carol Shields Literary Prize for Fiction. A member of the Haisla and Hieltsuk First Nations, she lives in Kitimat, in northern British Columbia near Alaska.