The author of cult children's classic Mortal Engines spins a brilliantly realised story of a land of drones and androids and a petty thief with a world-changing secret identity.
Step Aboard - the Universe is Waiting.
The Great Network is a place of drones and androids, Hive Monks and Station Angels. The place of the thousand gates, where sentient trains criss-cross the galaxy in a heartbeat.
It is also a place of great dangers - especially for someone who rides the rails and rides his luck the way Zen Starling does. Once Zen was just a petty thief, stealing to support his family and living by his wits. Now everything has changed. Zen is still a thief - but it could be that the key to the whole universe rests on finding out what else he is.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192742766
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 229 g
Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 20 mm
'With many twists and turns along the track and high-octane action all the way to the thrilling climax, Railhead never lets up on delivering the thrills and creativity readers expect from a story like this." - Young Post/South China Morning Post
"Sci-fi fans will delight in this lightning-paced and satisfying read." - The School Librarian
"Reeve's writing is, as always, very sharp and funny." - Books for Topics
I don't usually like Sci-fi but this is such a fantastic book that I made an exception. Why? Well the sci-fi /technology elements never sink the human/ Motorik (androids/robots) storylines. You invest heavily... More
If you are looking for an awesome new sci-fi novel to read, look no further. Railhead is the one.
Welcome to the future. A world brimming with technology, running on data networks, androids (aka motoriks) and...
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This is a great antidote to the current wave of dystopian fiction. The future here has a more optimistic feeling, although there is an underclass of people, the whole universe feels lighter.
Space travel here is...
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