Beyond This Bitter Air

On a late summer jaunt in the mountains, siblings Rowan, Dialfi, and Orry Yngling discover a tarnished copper box covered with mysterious engravings. It contains a book written in runes of the gnomads, a despised people who wander the polar wastes with their herds of caribou and mehemoths. The Ynglings themselves are Nuathans – proud descendants of renegade scientists who colonized Antarctica to ride out global warming several thousand years ago, who prize learning and rationality to this d...