Published in the UK by Oxford University Press, and in the US by Switch Press. I was aiming for the exotic fun of classic space opera, but with trains instead of spaceships… Hired to pull of a heist far more dangerous than he expected, petty thief Zen Starling is plunged into an adventure involving sentient trains, secret stations, sensitive androids, fickle data-gods, chatty insect colonies - so many things, in fact, that the story spilled over into two more books, Black Light Express and Station Zero. They'e in a similar scale to Mortal Engines, but instead of a ramshackle retro-future they'e set among the glittering hi-tech cities and terraformed garden planets of the Network Empire, an interstellar society built around a vast system of hyperspace railways. These books were my return to grand-scale world-building after a few years away.
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