From Warren Ellis the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space & Aetheric Mechanics comes a retropunk future of the past where spaceships still belched smoke & arguments were still settled with laser pistols Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has come to the interzone settlement in the middle of Ignition City Earth’s last spaceport to recover the effects of her dead father or so people think Mary really wants to know how he died & who did it Mary Raven is out to spoil a great many people’s days Today might be her last day on Earth trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder & the only real currency is fear She has her dead father’s raygun & that’s enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead But she also has her dead father’s diary