For the uninitiated: Seven years after a failed climate experiment has plunged Earth into a new ice age, the last remnants of humanity circle the globe on a massive, perpetually moving train. The front cars are utopia; the tail cars are a nightmare of squalor, protein blocks, and rebellion.
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