Other names besides [Herman] Melvilles will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling taletheres s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own.

On board the moletrain Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in ones death & the others glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham cant shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railseaeven if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds somethinga series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossiblethat leads to considerably more than hed bargained for. Soon hes hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Shams life thats about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.

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[Miville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, -esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails.

Superb . . . massively imaginative. (starred review)

Riveting . . . a great adventure.NPR

Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit.(London)