Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running
ISBN-10
1930846231
ISBN-13
9781930846234
Series
Two Trains Running
Category
Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Golden Gryphon Press
Authors
Charles Stross, Lucius Shepard

Description

"This collection of fact and fiction was inspired by the time science fiction writer Lucius Shepard spent with Missoula Mike, Madcat, and other members of a controversial brotherhood known as the Freight Train Riders of America. Shepard rode the rails throughout the western half of the United States with the disenfranchised, the homeless, the punks, the gangs, and the joy riders for the magazine article “The FTRA Story.” That original article is presented here, along with two new hobo novellas, “Over Yonder” and “Jailbait.” In “Over Yonder,” alcoholic Billy Long Gone finds himself on an unusual train. As Billy travels his health improves and his thinking clears, and he arrives in Yonder—an unlikely paradise where a few hundred hobos live in apparent peace and tranquility. But every paradise has its price, and in Yonder, peace and tranquility breed complacency and startling deaths. “Jailbait” is a hardcore tale of deception, lust, revenge, and murder in the seedy underbelly of rail yards and train hopping. Madcat, who functions best in a whiskey-induced haze, must decide between solitude and companionship when he meets up with Grace, an underaged runaway. Grace, in turn, seeks the security of an older man and the life about which only young girls can dream."

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