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THE FLIGHT OF THE SILVERS

Daniel Price

THE FLIGHT OF THE SILVERS is the first of two books in the new Silver Series, about two sisters and four strangers who mysteriously survive the cataclysmic end of the world, only to find themselves on a parallel Earth in a race to discover why they were saved -- and how to save themselves and this new Earth from the same end.

Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white and every airplane crashes to the ground. But the sisters are saved by three eerily beautiful strangers who force mysterious silver bracelets onto their wrists. Within minutes, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light and everything around them is gone. Shielded from the devastation by their bracelets, they suddenly find themselves elsewhere, a bizarre alternate Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and time is manipulated by common household appliances.

Soon Hannah and Amanda are joined by four other survivors from their world. At risk from enemies they never knew they had and afflicted with extraordinary abilities they never wanted, the sisters and their new companions band together on an epic journey to find the one man who may be able to tell them their purpose--and possibly save their lives.

Daniel Price is a writer living in Los Angeles. Though The Flight of the Silvers is his second novel, he's been developing the story for more than fifteen years. You can learn more about him and his books at danielprice.info. He lives in Los Angeles.

Available products
Book Published 2014-02-01 by Blue Rider Press
Book Published 2014-02-01 by Blue Rider Press

Comments

An absorbing adventure with a fresh take on both the parallel-universe and the paranormal subgenres. You'll get pulled in.

Price deserves credit for creating immediately relatable characters whose motivations are understandable even when not so commendable. But he deserves out-and-out praise for doing so while constantly upping the temporal ante. The reader’s uncertainty concerning the rules of this new world may well mirror that felt by the protagonists, but the shared confusion never ruins the immersion. As a result, any hours spent reading The Flight of the Silvers will be time well spent.

The cast is engaging (it includes a 16-year-old Australian boy, a girl who’s been separated from her entire family, and an affable cartoonist), and the author has created an alternate-reality world that is both bewilderingly different and reassuringly familiar…. A highly imaginative exercise in world building that also features characters it’s very easy to care about.

You should read [The Flight of the Silvers]. I found it very difficult to put it aside to deal with my own life...I'll be looking forward to the next installment.

Conjures a detailed, fantastic alternate Earth, populated with vulnerable, relatable characters from this Earth who readers will enthusiastically follow anywhere. Speculative fiction writers wear imagination like a suit of clothes, and Daniel Price has a closetful.

Daniel Price draws his Silvers trilogy to a close with this big, bold, beautiful comic book sci-fi extravaganza that somehow manages to out-Avengers The Avengers. The War of the Givens is a heartfelt epic, mashing together the best elements of genre staples like the X-Men by way of Fringe, with plenty of big-screen action and extraordinarily consequential heroics. I loved it!

Dazzlingly original and nimbly told, Daniel Price's Silvers series brims with mind-bending fun.

Throws crazy new ideas at you at a pretty intense clip, but... it works amazingly well.