ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't  expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious  circumstances during middle school. After all, the development of magical  powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail  to alarm one's peers and families.But now they're both adults,  living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling  apart around them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a  group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological  intervention. Patricia is a graduate of  Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and  works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the  world's every-growing ailments. Little do they realize that something  bigger than either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is  determined to bring them together--to either save the world, or plunge  it into a new dark ages.A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse.