Railhead

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017! 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 .