Mortal Engines
4 primary works • 7 total works
Book 1
Tom and Hester have been thrown together, literally thrown out of a city that's left them stranded and starving in the middle of nowhere while it hares off after its prey. Hester is desperate for revenge, Tom is desperate to get back on board his beloved London. This is an adventure story set in a fantasy world where moving cities trawl the globe.
Book 2
Philip Reeve is back with this gripping sequel to the Smarties Gold Awardwinner, Mortal Engines. Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying of cold after the Jenny Haniver's engines have failed. They are saved at the last minute, finding Anchorage, a once-beautiful ice city that has fallen on hard times. Crippled by plague, there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now, and the teenage margravine has made a desperate choice. They are heading for America, the Dead Continent.
Book 3
The brilliant sequel to Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold. Anchorage has become a static settlement on the shores of the Dead Continent, and its inhabitants have been living peacefully for sixteen years. But now trouble is approaching - in a limpet sub, and fast. The Lost Boys are back, and they'll do anything to get what they want. Tom and Hester's daughter Wren is their eager dupe, bored and desperate for adventure. When the theft of the mysterious Tin Book of Anchorage goes wrong, Wren is snatched away in the limpet, who knows where. Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but this is the end of their quiet life on Anchorage. The journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them into perilous waters...
Book 4
'A Darkling Plain' is the brilliant ending to an award-winning quartet that began with 'Mortal Engines'. It is six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton. Wren Natsworthy and her father have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Tom is troubled by Hester's disappearance and meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London ...
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London
was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of
the old North Sea.
So begins Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, the first book in
his epic post-apocalyptic series of giant motorized cities on wheels.
But how did the world end up like this? What led to the downfall
of our civilization, and to the rise of the Traction Cities
that roam the Great Hunting Ground to attack and devour each other?
Now, for the first time, discover the untold future history of Traction.
This lavishly illustrated book contains incredible
tales of fearsome Zagwan warriors riding war-zebras into battle,
daring air-traders flying the Bird-Roads in search of adventure,
and the mysterious plague-ridden wasteland of the Dead Continent
that was formerly known as 'North America'.
This definitive companion guide includes detailed maps, fascinating
character profiles, and stunning colour illustrations from
incredible artists, including Ian McQue, David Wyatt, Aedel
Fakhrie, Maxime Plasse, Rob Turpin, Philip Varbano and Amir Zand.
MORTAL ENGINES is soon to be a major motion picture.
was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of
the old North Sea.
So begins Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, the first book in
his epic post-apocalyptic series of giant motorized cities on wheels.
But how did the world end up like this? What led to the downfall
of our civilization, and to the rise of the Traction Cities
that roam the Great Hunting Ground to attack and devour each other?
Now, for the first time, discover the untold future history of Traction.
This lavishly illustrated book contains incredible
tales of fearsome Zagwan warriors riding war-zebras into battle,
daring air-traders flying the Bird-Roads in search of adventure,
and the mysterious plague-ridden wasteland of the Dead Continent
that was formerly known as 'North America'.
This definitive companion guide includes detailed maps, fascinating
character profiles, and stunning colour illustrations from
incredible artists, including Ian McQue, David Wyatt, Aedel
Fakhrie, Maxime Plasse, Rob Turpin, Philip Varbano and Amir Zand.
MORTAL ENGINES is soon to be a major motion picture.
Books 1-4
The critically acclaimed Mortal Engines quartet
is repackaged in a paperback boxset with fantastic and eye-catching
covers featuring new artwork by Ian McQue.
Mortal Engines launched Philip Reeve's
brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era,
where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future.
20 years on from it's first publication, it is hailed as a modern
classic.
TITLES INCLUDED
Mortal Engines
Predator's Gold
Infernal Devices
A Darkling Plain
Four paperback novels in a card slipcase, shrinkwrapped.
With a story that is epic, beatifully crafted and absorbing for
the entire four novels, this boxset is the perfect gift for lovers
of fantasy novels and classic science fiction such as Dune.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Mortal Engines was made into a feature length film starring
Hugo Weaving and produced and written by Lord of the
Rings director Peter Jackson
The first book in the series won the coveted Smarties Gold Book
award
REVIEWS
"Like the moving cities it depicts, Reeve's debut novel is
a staggering feat of engineering, a brilliant construction that
offers new wonders at every turn." - Publishers Weekly
"...readers who enjoy violent, titanic clashes between good
and evil will be absorbed from beginning to end."
- Kirkus Reviews
