The emperor's railroad : a tale of the dreaming cities

ISBN: 9780765389848 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print 175 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Tor, 2016.

Haley, Guy 1973- (author.).

Summary: Global war devastated the environment, a zombie-like plague wiped out much of humanity, and civilization as we once understood it came to a standstill. But that was a thousand years ago, and the world is now in a very different place. Conflict between city-states is constant; superstition is rife; and machine relics, mutant creatures, and resurrected prehistoric beasts trouble the land. Watching over all are the silent Dreaming Cities: homes of the angels, bastion outposts of heaven on Earth. Or so the church claims. Very few go in, and nobody ever comes out. Until now...