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24 alternatives to The Flight of the Silvers

A world of time travel and disruption.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Flight of the Silvers launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Time Travel: A History▲63

   A meditation on exploring time, travel, and technology

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Shape of Time▲62

   Remarks on the history of things

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The End of Mr. Y▲53

   A conscious tale of time-travel on a different scale.

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Second Machine Age▲66

   Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Time Travel: A History▲61

   A mind-bending exploration of time travel in fiction

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   A Systems Doing Approach To Disruption▲58

   Use systems 'doing' to disrupt industries

   2016 · asha-labs.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital▲70

   The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   The Peripheral▲62

   Humans from a different future change the past

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    PaperFlies▲65

    Book flights based on themes

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Brave New World▲73

    A Cautionary Dystopian Tale

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Quest▲62

    Energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Physics of the Future▲73

    How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Collapse▲68

    How societies choose to fail and succeed

    2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Wind, Sand & Stars▲7

    The grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    StarTalk - Time Lords: The Science of Keeping Time with Chris Hardwick▲62

    "take a mind-bending journey into the science of time"

    2016 · startalkmedia.com · its alternatives →

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    Diamond Age▲81

    Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and nano-technology

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future▲54

    What's the future?

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Rise of the Machines▲61

    A Cybernetic History 1st Edition

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris▲65

    Edmund White's travelogue of his time in Paris

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

22. 22
    The Great Escape▲59

    Health, wealth, and the origins of inequality

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    The Skies Belong to Us▲67

    Riveting read on the golden age of hijacking.

    2015 · theskiesbelongtous.com · its alternatives →

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    The End of Absence▲82

    Reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

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