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Zusatztext Sci-fi fans will delight in this lightning-paced and satisfying read Klappentext Zen Starling is a petty thief destined to ride the rails to nowhere special. That is until Raven! a strange and mysterious figure! enlists him for one small! special job that might just bring everything in this galaxy and the next to the end of the line. A rich! layered novel with complex characters and epic story! from the award-winning Philip Reeve. The long-awaited new blockbuster from Philip Reeve Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017!"Come with me! Zen Starling"! she had said. The girl in the red coat. But how did she know his name? The Great Network is a place of drones and androids! maintenance spiders and Station Angels. The place of the thousand gates! where sentient trains criss-cross the galaxy in a heartbeat. Zen Starling is a petty thief! a street urchin from Thunder City. So when mysterious stranger Raven sends Zen and his new friend Nova on a mission to infiltrate the Emperor's train! he jumps at the chance to traverse the Great Network! to cross the galaxy in a heartbeat! to meet interesting people - and tosteal their stuff. But the Great Network is a dangerous place! and Zen has no idea where his journey will take him...The long-awaited new blockbuster from Carnegie-medal-winning author Philip Reeve.
