[1] The Silver Dream continues the story of Joey Harker, a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovered he has the ability to travel between parallel dimensions.

In this novel, Joey continues to struggle to find his place within the InterWorld organization, as he is still blamed for the death of a popular team member.

As the team begins to lose more and more ground to Hex and Binary, Joey encounters a mysterious young woman named Acacia Jones, whose powers to jump between dimensions seem to rival or even exceed his own—and who may not be working for the same ends that he is.

In a YouTube posting from April 2013, Gaiman explained that he had wanted to write a sequel to Interworld for some time, but was committed to too many other projects.

[2][3] According to an overview of The Silver Dream on Gaiman's website, "Mallory would write, Michael would edit, Neil would invite them out for sushi and introduce a major plot twist like 'Let's strand him in the future!'