The Silver Ship and the Sea is a young-adult science-fiction novel by Brenda Cooper, published in 2007. In 2008, it won the Endeavour Award, and was also one of Booklist's Adult Books for Young Adults Winners. The Silver Ship and the Sea is the first book in a series. The other two books are Reading the Wind and Wings of Creation. Critical response to The Silver Ship and the Sea was generally positive. Writing in Analog, Richard Foss criticized the pacing of the next book, "Reading the Wind".