Ten passengers wake up on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston to find the pilot, crew, and most other travelers have vanished, leaving behind only inanimate objects like wedding rings and hairpieces. Brian Engle, an off-duty pilot, lands the aircraft at a deserted Bangor International Airport. The survivors discover a world devoid of color, scent, and echoes, where food has no taste and electricity fails to function. As a terrifying crunching sound approaches from the horizon, the group realizes they have slipped through a chronological rip into the literal past, where monstrous entities known as the Langoliers arrive to consume the discarded, expired remnants of yesterday.
This audio presentation serves fans of high-concept supernatural horror and listeners who enjoy isolated, locked-room mysteries. It appeals to those seeking a narrative where physical laws break down and characters must use logic to solve a metaphysical puzzle under extreme pressure. Readers finish the story with a concrete visualization of time as a physical resource that can be exhausted. They gain a chilling perspective on the transition between the present moment and the void of the past, specifically how structural reality disintegrates once its purpose is fulfilled.
Practical, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
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