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Railhead by Philip Reeve – review

Written By Unknown on Thursday, October 1, 2015 | 7:15 AM

‘Very well written and is a must read’

Railhead is an epic fantasy that had me clinging on to its every word. The book is set away from earth and instead in The Great Network; lots of planets that inhabitants can travel between in fractions of a second on the trains through the k gates that the Guardians built.

Zen Starling is a petty thief and a railhead. He makes his living by selling all that he steals to Uncle Bugs – a Hive Monk, a colony of beetles that are in a human-shaped form. One day, Zen steals a necklace, and is chased by a Motorik (cyborg) and suddenly Uncle Bugs is no longer Uncle Bugs, only a few brown beetles that are still alive, and that Zen is now a wanted criminal.

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