Even with a great novel to read, don't you hate waiting in airports and cramming yourself into airliner seats? Instead, what if you could take an air taxi up to a spacious flying hotel with restaurants, shops, theaters, museums, game rooms, and even a theme park?
What you're dreaming of is a skyliner and in the near future, they fly all over the world. Massive yet beautiful and even graceful, they cruise around the country the way steamboats used to sail on the Mississippi River.
Technically, skyliners are giant neutral buoyancy lifting body aircraft capable of transporting huge quantities of cargo for emergency missions like floods and hurricanes.
But they're even better as flying vacation destinations, and Robin, a dirt poor young girl dreams of boarding one. She gets her dream, but not as she expected. Still grieving over her mother's sudden and mysterious death, she has to sneak aboard a skyliner to keep her mother's killer from stealing the secret held by her mom's computer persona.
From the Twain, a vacation skyliner, she looks down on a transformed United States. With people and cargo able to travel inexpensively by air, railroads and freeways fall apart. Vast expanses of the country open up to wildlife. American bison, antelope, wolves, bears, and pumas roam like they did long ago.
To take care of so much open territory, the National Park Service and Coast Guard are combined and subsume the other branches of the military. When Robin goes up against her mother's killer, she's going to need them.
That's Robin's world and the biggest adventure of her young life is just beginning.
Board the Skyliner and come along!
What you're dreaming of is a skyliner and in the near future, they fly all over the world. Massive yet beautiful and even graceful, they cruise around the country the way steamboats used to sail on the Mississippi River.
Technically, skyliners are giant neutral buoyancy lifting body aircraft capable of transporting huge quantities of cargo for emergency missions like floods and hurricanes.
But they're even better as flying vacation destinations, and Robin, a dirt poor young girl dreams of boarding one. She gets her dream, but not as she expected. Still grieving over her mother's sudden and mysterious death, she has to sneak aboard a skyliner to keep her mother's killer from stealing the secret held by her mom's computer persona.
From the Twain, a vacation skyliner, she looks down on a transformed United States. With people and cargo able to travel inexpensively by air, railroads and freeways fall apart. Vast expanses of the country open up to wildlife. American bison, antelope, wolves, bears, and pumas roam like they did long ago.
To take care of so much open territory, the National Park Service and Coast Guard are combined and subsume the other branches of the military. When Robin goes up against her mother's killer, she's going to need them.
That's Robin's world and the biggest adventure of her young life is just beginning.
Board the Skyliner and come along!
