The Islanders

The Islanders is more of a puzzle than a conventional novel. It is presented as a tourist's guide to the Dream Archipelago, and it contains a story, description, correspondence, or other shortwork for a variety of islands, ordered alphabetically by name. I liked how the various sections linked to one another, and how information gained later in the novel could change the interpretation of previous chapters. I thought it was a lot of fun piecing larger stories together from the information scattered throughout the different islands' sections. There is really nothing in the way of a conclusion, though, so the larger picture only exists within the readers' minds. Like the cartographers that draw maps from the Archipelago's wandering drones, the reader is left to construct their view of The Islanders by building connections between many disjointed pieces of information.

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