The Flight of the Silvers Author: Daniel Price | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DGZKHRC | Format: PDF
The Flight of the Silvers Description
“I could list the wonders of this new world for a while, but I’d rather let you discover them for yourself when you read the book. You should read this book! I loved
The Flight of the Silvers. I found it very difficult to put it aside to deal with my own life…It really is an amazing book.”
–SF Crow’s NestWithout warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious strangers, three fearsome and beautiful beings who force a plain silver bracelet onto each sister’s wrist. Within moments, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light and everything around them is gone.
Shielded from the devastation by their silver adornments, the Givens 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.
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The Flight of the Silvers is a fabulous piece of speculative fiction. Its opening chapter is completely captivating, introducing Amanda and Hannah in a way that is unforgettable… This is an intricately plotted novel and it is also a beautifully written one. Enjoyable wordplay – including the creation of new words and the clever use of phrases – make
The Flight of the Silvers as intellectually engaging as it is fun…. It’s a substantial book but a hugely enjoyable one and it is extremely difficult to put down. There is no doubt that in places it is bonkers. It’s impossible to tell what will happen next but whatever that thing is it will shock, horrify or delight. The air of foreboding is also chilling. All described and told with the lightest of touches and an exuberance.”
–For Winter Nights blog“Great characters and extraordinarily detailed world building make this a real page turner.”
--Clare (NetGalley) - File Size: 1375 KB
- Print Length: 608 pages
- Publisher: Blue Rider Press (February 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DGZKHRC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,720 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I’m always loathe to say that something I read in February is The Book of the Year. Like saying a Tuesday is the worst day of the week, or that your only time visiting New York was your favorite time, it seems like damning it with faint praise at best, or, more likely, a pithy insult. So understand when I say that when I say this is The Book of the Year, I mean it because I have trouble imagining a better book coming out this year, or possibly for years to come.
This is The Book of the Year. Hell, this is in my top three ever, and I’m not trying to humble brag when I say I read I a book every ten days. The Flight of the Silvers is just that goddamn good.
A lot of people look down on science fiction and fantasy. They scoff at it because so many people who write in that genre are terrible authors who happen to have a good idea or two. So the books they write may be based on an interesting premise, and that premise may be well developed, but ultimately their writing is atrocious. And their novels are driven by that premise, and character development is all but abandoned. For all that I love Philip K. Dick, I refer to this as the PKD Problem.
Sometimes these scoffers write “magical realism.” Which is a genre defined being written by people who don’t love science fiction and fantasy, are never well developed from an interesting premise, but have a character-driven story.
Many people don’t understand that science fiction and fantasy don’t preclude both. A book can have an amazing story and an amazing premise. It can provoke the mind, provide a sense of awe, and make you feel as attached to the characters as you would Raskolnikov or Tom Sawyer. There just aren’t a lot of books like that. In fact, there are very, very few.
This is one of those books.
Short review: A superbly entertaining science fiction novel with a fascinatingly complex and well thought out plot.
Okay, you need more than that to pay the price of admission, right? I don't blame you!
The long review: The Flight of the Silvers, by Daniel Price is the type of novel that all science fiction authors should aspire to write. According to the author notes, Mr. Price spent three years writing this marvelous story and it shows; it shows itself in the intimately drawn characters, with all of their flaws, insecurities, strengths, and especially their personalities.
Chapter one: Our universe comes to an end! Trust me, that's not a plot spoiler -- it's the beginning of a harrowing ride for six protagonists who are "saved" by a trio of mysterious . . . humans ("quote--unquote") and are transplanted into an alternate universe, an Earth mostly like our own but also different in many disturbing ways. In this new, alternate universe, a "split" from our own, the inhabitants have discovered time manipulation through technology. However, our six characters don't need this technology because each of them have an innate, or genetically programmed ability to shape, or read, or alter, or communicate with, or predict the future. Thanks to mysterious benefactors, they wind-up in a laboratory where they are the subjects. That's a gross simplification that doesn't do justice to what Mr. Price has written. They're aliens in an alien Earth. (Thank you, Mr. Heinlein!)
Six young individuals who are torn from OUR universe and wind-up in another, scary one where they are not welcomed and are hunted down by many who want to kill them. Through the course of the book, their variously specialized skills are slowly realized and developed.
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