What is "thin air"

n. (context idiomatic figuratively usually humorous English) An unknown location.

n. nowhere to be found in a giant void; "it vanished into thin air"

Thin Air is a Star Trek: New Earth novel written by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

Thin Air may refer to:

• Thin Air (album), a 2009 album by Peter Hammill
• ''Thin Air'' (1978 novel), a science fiction novel by George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger
• Thin Air (1995 novel), a 1995 Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker
  • Thin Air, a 2000 Spenser TV film based on the novel
• Thin Air (Star Trek), a Star Trek: New Earth novel by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Thin Air Community Radio (KYRS), a low-powered radio station in Spokane, Washington
• Winnipeg International Writers Festival or THIN AIR, an annual literary festival
• Thin Air, a story arc in the comics series The Pulse
• "Thin Air", a song by Keane, a B-side of the single " Nothing in My Way"
• "Thin Air", a song by Pearl Jam from Binaural

Thin Air is the 22nd Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The story follows Boston-based PI Spenser as he searches for the wife of his longtime associate, Sgt. Frank Belson of the Boston Police Department.

Thin Air is British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill's 30th solo album, released on his own Fie! Records label in June 2009. It was additionally made available as digital download through Burning Shed Records.

As on his previous release, Singularity, Hammill played all instruments, wrote all the songs and produced the album.

The main theme of the album is disappearance, as Hammill told British music magazine Mojo in February 2009: "it became apparent fairly quickly that strong thematic links were running through the songs' lyrics: disappearance, change, loss, dislocation in various forms were stitched through all of them."

Another topic reappearing in several songs is the one of the World Trade Center along with images of planes, though Hammill denied "any direct" reference to 9/11.

According to Allmusic, Thin Air "may be less experimental than Singularity, but bleaker -- and a more cohesive, consistent artistic proposition." The songs contain "almost no percussion, just acoustic guitars, piano, some gnarly electric guitar lines, bass, and those massed and intertwined back vocals that have become his signature".

The album's cover was again created by Paul Ridout, using stills from his video work "Minutely Observed Horizon".