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Author: Reeve, Philip Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)Published on 4 August 2016 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 320 pages129 x 198 x 22 | 228g 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 . . . Show more