Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Mobile cities hunt across a ruined world

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In a distant future, great cities move across the earth on enormous tracks, hunting and consuming smaller towns for resources. Apprentice historian Tom Natsworthy has grown up aboard London and believes in the system of Municipal Darwinism—until scarred fugitive Hester Shaw attempts to assassinate celebrated explorer Thaddeus Valentine. When Tom intervenes, he is thrown from the city with Hester and learns that London’s glorious story conceals dangerous secrets. Stranded in the hunting ground, the unlikely pair must survive hostile machines, airborne settlements and enemies determined to silence them. Philip Reeve combines inventive world-building, fast adventure and moral complexity in the opening novel of the Mortal Engines series. Beneath its spectacular moving cities lies a story about power, history, loyalty and the courage required to question everything you have been taught.