The Flight of the Silvers: The Silvers Book One (The Silvers Series 1) - Softcover

Price, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451472764 ISBN 13: 9780451472762

Publisher: Blue Rider Press, 2015

Synopsis

The first book in the genre-bending Silvers series—an io9 “can't miss” science fiction pick—about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an earth far different from our own. 

Without warning, the world comes to an end. The sky looms frigid white. The electric grid falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground.

Within moments, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light, and everything and everyone are gone—except for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from destruction by three fearsome and powerful beings, the Given sisters suddenly find themselves elsewhere: a strange new Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances.

Soon Hannah and Amanda are joined by four other survivors from their world—a mordant cartoonist, a shy teenage girl, a brilliant young Australian, and a troubled ex-prodigy. Hunted by enemies they never knew they had, and afflicted with temporal abilities they never wanted, the sisters and their companions begin a cross-country journey to find the one man who can save them—before time runs out.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Price is the author of Slick, The Song of the Orphans, and The Flight of the Silvers. He lives in Gilbert, Arizona, with his partner, Nancy, and her three children. He cannot actually manipulate time.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

They rounded the corner, turning north onto 13th Street. Just one block away, beyond all the cordons and emergency lights, stood the broken tail cone of a jumbo jet. The buildings around it were devastated with ash and debris. One apartment complex had crumbled to rubble.

Hannah covered her mouth. “Oh my God.”

More than a hundred thousand planes, jets and helicopters had been up in the air seven hours ago, when all the world’s engines fell still. A third of them plummeted into water. Another third hit the hard empty spaces between human life. The final third just hit hard. San Diego had suffered twenty-two crashes within its borders.

Hannah gaped at the tall gray clock tower of the 12th & Imperial Transit Center, just a hundred yards away. It was a local landmark, one she’d passed a thousand times on her way to work. Now it had been de-clocked, decapitated. Every window on the south side of the building was shattered, with burn marks all over the frame.

All around her, people fretfully chattered. A stringy blond teenager brandished a transistor radio, declaring to anyone willing to listen that he’d heard voices through the static. People in other cities were talking about the same things.

“This is happening all over,” he insisted. “Everywhere!”

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Rider Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0451472764
• ISBN 13: 9780451472762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624