Sham tells them of the content of the camera, and they resolve to retrace their parents steps aboard their own train. They are the son and daughter of two explorers who ventured to the furthest reaches of the railsea before disappearing. Sham and Naphi view the images and are shocked to see an image of a single rail leading off into the distance, an apparent impossibility as it is believed that the railsea is endless.Īs rumours spread of Sham's discovery, his investigations lead him to Caldera and Dero Shroake. Sham enters it, discovering a corpse and a camera buried in the ground. Naphi is especially obsessed with one mole named Mocker-Jack and after one encounter, they discover an abandoned train. Sham Yes ap Soorap is a young assistant doctor on a moletrain, captained by Abacat Naphi, that hunts giant moles for meat in a similar fashion to whaling.
These threats mean that humanity are confined to 'islands' of harder rock through which the animals cannot burrow and the spaces between can only be safely traversed by use of trains. The earth is colonised by ravenous giant naked mole-rats and other carnivorous giant forms of familiar animals, such as earwigs and antlions as well as stranger non-identifiable creatures that reside in the polluted sky. Railsea is set on a dystopian world whose lands are covered by endless interconnecting tracks of rails, known as the "railsea". Miéville described the novel as " weird fiction", io9 labelled its mix of fantasy and steampunk elements as "salvagepunk" and the story has been seen as an "affectionate parody" of Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick, also drawing on Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped.
Railsea is a young adult novel written and illustrated by English writer China Miéville, and published in May 2012.
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