Mortal Engines

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Part 1: The hunting ground -- Valentine -- The waste chute -- The out-country -- The Lord Mayor -- Speedwell -- High London -- The trading center -- The Jenny Haniver -- The 13th Floor Elevator -- Airhaven -- The gasbag and gondola -- The resurrected man -- The guildhall -- The Rustwater Marshes -- The turd tanks -- The pirate suburb -- Bevis -- The Sea of Khazak -- The Black Island -- In the engineerium -- Grike -- MEDUSA -- Part 2: An agent of the league -- The historians -- Batmunkh Gompa -- Dr. Arkengarth remembers -- A stranger in the mountains of heaven -- Going home -- A hero's welcome -- The eavesdropper -- Chudleigh Pomeroy sees it through -- Wine and nibbles and the dawn of a new era -- Idea for a fireworks display -- The cathedral -- The shadow of bones -- The bird roads.
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.

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A excellent read for everyone over the age of 10. submitted by Tanner on July 16, 2011, 2:44pm Philip Reeves 'Mortal Engines' is a great book with a perfect mix of adventure, action, romance, AND technology. Defiantly a must read.

Start of a Strong Series submitted by Jan Wolter on July 26, 2013, 2:26pm This book was the first written of Philip Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series (marketed in the US as the "Hungry Cities" series, possibly in hopes of reminding people of the entirely unrelated "Hunger Games"). The stories are set in a far, far future time when our civilization has been destroyed by a nuclear war, and the great cities of the world have raised up on wheels or tracks and now roam the blasted landscape of the world in search of weaker cities to consume for raw materials. The idea of Municipal Darwinism is fundamentally demented, but Reeve pretends it makes sense and gives us a series of smashing good tales set in that world of scavengers. In the first book, London is in trouble, having pretty much run out of cities to eat, but a secret plan is in the works to open up a whole new hunting ground. Our young hero knows nothing of this, but when he rescues the woman he adores from a savage girl assassin, he is unceremoniously thrown overboard for the crime of knowing the assassin exists. The two of them both want to get back aboard London, for entirely different reasons, so they set out to find their way back. Airships, cyborgs, and ancient weapons figure prominently. Many things explode. But there is also love, courage, and character development enough for folks who want more than explosions in their adventures.

Interesting Read submitted by eschrine on July 16, 2021, 6:53pm Fascinating world-building more than anything. Made for a good read, even if my favorite characters were killed at the end! Some characters were more fleshed out than others, but I appreciated how multi-dimensional some of the characters were.

Interesting Book submitted by KatieD on August 6, 2021, 3:31pm I really liked the world building done here! I didn't relate to most of the characters but the plot and world building elements helped me stay invested in the story. I think it's really intriguing how their society is built on Darwinism, which is usually associated with nature, but is instead associated with machines in this world.