{"id":119590,"date":"2021-06-15T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=119590"},"modified":"2021-06-17T05:45:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:45:51","slug":"the-black-locomotive-cover-and-first-two-chapters-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/books\/the-black-locomotive-cover-and-first-two-chapters-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Locomotive: Cover and first two chapters revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We absolutely loved Rian Hughes&#8217; typographic sci-fi thriller <em><strong>XX<\/strong><\/em> here at SciFiNow (read our review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/books\/xx-review-a-picture-paints-a-thousand-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>!) and now Hughes is back with <em><strong>The Black Locomotive,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>a technological mystery set in London, and we&#8217;re delighted to reveal its industrial, brutalist-looking cover (above)!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the synopsis for\u00a0<strong>The Black Locomotive&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>London is built from concrete, steel and the creative urge.<\/p>\n<p>Old technology gives way to the new. Progress is inevitable &#8211; but is it more fragile than its inhabitants realise?<\/p>\n<p>A strange anomaly is uncovered in the new top-secret Crossrail extension being built under Buckingham Palace. It is an archeological puzzle, one that may transform our understanding of history &#8211; and the origins of London itself.<\/p>\n<p>And if our modern world falls, we may have to turn to the technology of the past in order to save our future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re like us and can&#8217;t wait to find out start unraveling that archeological puzzle, we are <strong>exclusively<\/strong> revealing chapters one and two of <em><strong>The Black Locomotive\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in our gallery below so you can enjoy Hughes&#8217; unique, visual storytelling in its full glory. Click on the thumbnails below to read in full screen&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><code id=\"envira_shortcode_119731\">[envira-gallery id=\"119731\"]<\/code><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>The Black Locomotive is out on 5 August. Pre-order your copy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/rian-hughes\/the-black-locomotive\/9781529074420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reveal the cover and exclusively publish chapters one and two of The Black Locomotive, Rian Hughes&#8217; latest novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":119726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,1718,3],"tags":[7176],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-locomotive.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}