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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, Book 1)

by Philip Reeve

A city on wheels, a world in ruins

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    School Library Journal starred review

    A starred review describes Mortal Engines as a landmark of visionary imagination.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A city on wheels, a world in ruins

In this post-apocalyptic setting, cities move across the wasteland and prey on smaller settlements. When London attacks a little town, Tom Natsworthy is thrown from the moving city alongside Hester Shaw, and the two must make their way through the wreckage while a new weapon puts the world’s future at risk. The opening premise brings together a chase across a transformed landscape and a larger conflict over survival. As the first book in the Mortal Engines series, it establishes a world shaped by mobile cities, dangerous technology, and the consequences of life after civilization’s collapse.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in post-apocalyptic science fiction
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving mobile cities, survival, and a dangerous journey
  • Those looking for the first installment of a science-fiction series

Themes

Post-apocalyptic survivalPredatory cities and resource competitionDangerous technologyLife in a transformed landscape

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Book overview

The epic city-eat-city adventure is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

 

"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading this book we knew we wanted to make it into a movie." -- Producer Peter Jackson

* "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." -- School Library Journal, starred review

Now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.

In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a brilliant new world in the Mortal Engines series, called "phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening" by the Sunday Times.

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