a b Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines Quartet series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

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If you're on to a good thing, why stop? Lots of you suggested trying more books by Philip, with Railheadgetting love from @bookthesp1, @WstonesClifton, @MrEFinch and @Lurkio38(who described it as 'another brilliant series'). Antarctica – Mentioned only once and evidently the domain of oil drilling Traction Cities. Tom and Hester visit Antarctica between the first two books, but it is not described in the text of the books. Children might enjoy Peter Bunzl's Coghearttrilogy, which explores an alternative Victorian era, full of silver ships and mechanical marvels, or Vashti Harrison's Brightstorm, the story of 12-year-old twins Maudie and Arthur who journey to South Polaris. The title is a quotation from Act III, Scene iii of William Shakespeare's play Othello ("Othello: And O you mortal engines whose rude throats/Th'immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit..." – Line 352). In the novel, it refers to the fact that the society of Municipal Darwinism is not sustainable living and that the cities' engines are indeed mortal. Shrike was flown to Airhaven, where he found his targets in a café with Anna Fang and Yasmina Rashid. He fought the Aviators who defended let Tom and Hester before continuing to chase his targets by airship. When Tom and Hester leapt out of their balloon as a diversion, Shrike pretended to fall for it, allowing them a head start before resuming his pursuit.The Fever Crumb Series is a second series of novels set centuries or millennia before the events depicted in the Quartet. The main character is Fever Crumb, a London Engineer who is partially descended from the Scriven, a mutant race of humans. The series also introduced the character Shrike, revealing his origins before he became a Stalker. Anna Fang – an Asian pilot and former owner of the Jenny Haniver, who is also a leading agent of the Anti-Traction League. She is killed at the end of Mortal Engines, but is resurrected as the Stalker Fang, who overthrows the rulers of the League and installs herself as a military dictator. Cynthia, revealed to be a Green Storm agent, explains to Wren that the Tin Book will help Green Storm defeat the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft. Cynthia takes the Book and holds Wren and Theo at gunpoint, but the two are saved by Pennyroyal. As Skhin attempts to escape Brighton, he shoots Pennyroyal and takes a decoy of the Tin Book, but his airship is destroyed by Stalker-birds. Wren Natsworthy – Tom and Hester's daughter who is kidnapped from their home and as a result, finds herself experiencing the same sort of adventures as her parents.

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Tom Natsworthy, a 15-year-old boy who is a Third-Class Apprentice Historian who is unwittingly brought along with Hester. Kit" is a moniker for someone with the name "Christopher". "Solent" refers to the Solent, a strait between the Isle of Wight and Great Britain. One of the more subtle differences between the book and the film is the decision not to include London’s four governing guilds: the historians, the merchants, the navigators and the engineers. Key figures from many guilds are present in the film – including Lord Mayor Magnus Crome, who in the book is the head of the guild of engineers, and Thaddeus Valentine, who Crome appoints head historian – but no mention is made of the guilds themselves. An exciting, original, steampunk dystopia, Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines won the Gold Award at the Nestle Smarties Book Prize in 2002 and the Blue Peter Prize in 2003. In Grimsby, Uncle severely beats Caul for his betrayal. He reveals that Fang was once a slave in Arkangel, but Uncle released her out of love. She betrayed him by building an airship and escaping from slavery. Uncle wanted to retrieve and reprogram Fang to become his slave. Caul is saved by a fellow Lost Boy, Gargle, who gives Caul the Reykjavík map.Our first protagonist is young Tom Natsworthy, a teenage Apprentice Historian in the roaming city of London. London has returned to a more Victorian age in both apparel and societal expectation. The 1800’s British class system is now replaced with four major guilds. The guilds do all the necessary work to keep London running. In the Traction City of Peripatetiapolis, Tom Natsworthy discovers he has not long to live. Tom and Wren travel to Murnau, a Traktionstadtsgesellschaft city, where they meet Wolf von Kobold, commander of the burrowing Traction City Harrowbarrow. The three make an expedition to the ruins of London, and discover that survivors of MEDUSA have rebuilt a society there, including a new Traction Town called "New London" which uses magnetic levitation to float above the ground. Wolf slips away, intent on devouring New London's technology to upgrade Harrowbarrow. Philip Reeve has stated that his plans to write a science fiction novel were laid in the late 1980s. [8] Mortal Engines is a young-adult science fiction novel by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic UK in 2001. The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world that is running out of resources.

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The historians and the engineers have significant roles in the sub-plot concerning Katherine Valentine’s investigation aboard London, but the removal isn’t particularly noticeable as this thread has been largely excised from the film. It does, however, rob us of the inclusion of additional stalkers beyond Shrike, which in turn undermines one of the major plot points in the book’s sequels. Hester’s scar Some names just kept on popping up! 'The two that spring to mind are The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman,' said @HHALibrary. 'They're fantasy series which are brimming with ideas and they get away from all the wizards, dragons and so on.' As well as its immensely powerful weaponry, ODIN appears to show signs of intelligence. When it is awakened, it queries its new position and briefly searches for its old masters, and notes the vast difference in geography since its last awakening. It can also zoom in to an individual's face on the Earth and, although the picture is grainy, it is still identifiable. It can change its orbit when directed to target all over the globe. This, as well as the Stalker minds found among Old-Tech (and Shrike), seems to prove that robots had, by the time of the Sixty Minute War, achieved sentience. It seems they were on to something - @WstonesClifton also recommended Pullman and The Old Kingdom,saying it's 'fantasy, not sci-fi, but has a similar sense of humour', @WCBLibraryis a Northern Lightsfan and @bookthesp1 described Pullman and Ursula Le Guin - another popular choice - as 'world builders'. I was bereft after finishing the Mortal Enginesquartet,' @one_to_read admitted. 'I mean really bereft'. So we'll definitely pay attention to his suggestions about which books helped and were 'enjoyed enormously' - The Way Past Winterby Kiran Millwood Hargrave and The Graveyard Bookby Neil Gaiman. Gaiman's work also came recommended by @HazeleyLibrary, who suggested trying Stardust. More ideas

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The Great Hunting Ground – Consists of Europe and Northern Asia, and is the domain of the Traction Cities. It is a muddy wasteland in which the constant movement of the cities has destroyed all vegetation. The land is identified by city-dwellers as the "Out-Country". Wren, employed in Pennyroyal's household, befriends fellow slaves Cynthia Twite and Theo Ngoni. Upon arriving in Brighton, Tom meets with Skhin to negotiate Wren's release, but is captured. Skhin plans to use Tom and Wren to expose Pennyroyal is a fraud and sell the Tin Book to the highest bidder. When Wren and Theo steal the Tin Book for Skhin, they discover that Cloud9 has been set adrift. Hester releases the Lost Boy slaves and kills Skhin's men in the pandemonium. Meanwhile, Fishcake informs Tom that Wren is on Cloud9. The book won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 2003 Blue Peter Book Award. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award, the 2004 ALA's Notable Books for Children award and the 2020 Blue Peter Awards 20th anniversary prize. [4] [5] [6] Synopsis [ edit ] Setting [ edit ] Wren and Theo are captured by General Naga, Green Storm's second-in-command, and brought before Fang, who takes the real Book and memorizes the codes. Knowing that Fang will kill thousands, Zero commands Shrike to kill Fang. Shrike destroys Fang, scattering her battered pieces across the coastline of Africa. Cloud9 begins to burn and descend. Tom and Hester recover the Jenny Haniver, whilst Wren and Theo escape with the wounded Pennyroyal. Naga seizes control of Green Storm and leaves Cloud9 with Zero and other passengers. Sixteen years later, most inhabitants of the now-static city Anchorage-in-Vineland are happy with their new lives, except Wren Natsworthy, the teenage daughter of Tom and Hester. One night, she encounters three Lost Boys—Remora, Fishcake, and their older leader Gargle—who have come to Anchorage in search of the Tin Book, an artifact that contains the activation codes for orbital weapons left over from the Sixty Minute War. Gargle persuades Wren to join them.

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Shrike freed himself, and he and Hester went to the Town Hall. They found a warm fireplace and food, and Shrike attempted to tell a Midwinter story about a girl with a dog. Noticing his difficulty, Hester reminisced on the events of the past day instead. bookthesp1 also recommended the Mortal Enginesprequels, including Fever Crumb, while @konallis said that they think Philip's Larklighttrilogy is 'superior' to Mortal Engines -definitely worth a look, then! Garth Nix, Philip Pullman and Ursula Le Guin Anna Fang, a friendly but deadly aviatrix and Anti-Tractionist agent who rescues Hester and Tom from being sold into slavery.

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The Mortal Engines, due to its post-apocalyptic steampunk aesthetic, will probably get lumped into Science Fiction. But make no mistake this is pure fantasy. Tom Natsworthy goes on Campbell’s Hero’s journey in an almost paint by numbers fashion. Reeve’s almost does some interesting things by retaining the Hero’s refusal of the call for so long, but again he fails to make Natsworthy’s blind devotion to Municipal Darwinism meaningful. The story essentially comes down to good versus evil, but the characters are so unexplored that even that falls flat. Final Thoughts