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- London is mostly obliterated by Tom, Hester, and the Anti-Traction League's attack, and Valentine is killed, leaving Hester and Tom as the city's only survivors.
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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.
As Hester, Tom, and Anna travel to the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa with the surviving Anti-Tractionists, Valentine kills Crome in a coup and musters support from Londoners by vowing to destroy the Shield Wall with MEDUSA and lead them to a new Hunting Ground in Asia.
With Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae. In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.
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- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Christian Rivers
- 2018-12-14
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London is on the move again. The city has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. The great town moves off after its quarry as events within the walls begin to take a sinister turn...
Part One
The book starts with the traction city of London chasing and catching a small mining town called Salthook. Tom Natsworthy, a teenage Apprentice Historian, is sent to the "Gut" of London, where towns are stripped for resources, after he skips a chore and engages in a brawl. Tom incidentally meets the Head of the Guild of Historians, Thaddeus Valentine, along with his daughter, Katherine. One of Salthook's citizens, teenager Hester Shaw, attempts to assassinate Valentine, but Tom interferes and...
Part Two
Tom and Hester are rescued by Fang, who is revealed to be an Anti-Traction League agent, and takes them to the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa which protects the nation-state of the League, Shan Guo. Fang suspects that the weapon London has will be used to destroy the Shield Wall, and warns League Governor Khan of MEDUSA. Khan is sceptical that London will attack, but Fang insists that they should bomb London to destroy the weapon. Convinced that the League will kill innocent people, Tom storms...
A few of the people in Mortal Enginesare named after places in Devon, where Reeve lives, including Chudleigh, Tamerton Foliot and the River Plym. In the quartet, Miss Plym and Chudleigh Pomeroy are both in the Guild of Historians, and Tamarton Foliot is an "Alternative" historian. Both Shrike and Smew are named after birds, and Pennyroyal is named ...
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 morta...
His plans to write a science fiction novel were laid in the late 1980s. At that time, he has stated that he originally thought of the idea of traction cities when people where complaining about the growth of a city that threatened to engulf smaller towns. A loosely-related short story Urbivore, as well as Orbital Trash, written earlier served as a ...
In the early versions of Mortal Engines, the first line was always revolved around London eating a small town on a nice day.Mortal Engines was originally set in a parallel universe. However, Philip Reeve dropped this when Philip Pullman's His Dark Materialswas released.Philip Reeve was reading a lot of Charles Dickinson works when he planned to write his science-fiction novel.The original version of Mortal Engineswas Reeve's attempt to describe all aspects of traction London.Citations
1. Keazor, Henry (2010). "'Mortal Engines' und 'Infernal Devices': Architektur- und Technologie-Nostalgie bei Philip Reeve". In Böhn, Andreas; Möser, Kurt (eds.). Techniknostalgie und Retrotechnologie. pp. 129–147.
Jun 5, 2018 · Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) A mysterious, masked girl with a disfiguring scar steps on board London and immediately attempts to assassinate Thaddeus Valentine, the hero of the city. What's her...
Mortal Engines is a 2018 American-New Zealand steampunk science-fiction film that is the adaptation of the young-adult novel of the same name. The film was directed by Christian Rivers, Peter Jackson's protege, as his directorial debut. It premiered on November 26th, 2018 in London.
Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the so-called "Sixty Minute War" has ravaged the Earth. As a result of this upheaval, survivors have moved to cities on wheels, some of which share the names of the cities which preceded them (like London).
