Mortal Engines: 1 (Mortal Engines Quartet)

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Hester Shaw, a 15-year-old short-tempered assassin whose parents were murdered by Valentine and seeks vengeance. Eventually, Shrike came across a disfigured young girl named Hester Shaw, whom he adopted. They lived together first aboard the scavenger-platform of Strole and later the town of Twyne. At some point in this period he began collecting mechanical devices and tools. The Fever Crumb series also visits many of the locations not depicted in the Mortal Engines Quartet. The traveller Chung-Mai Spofforth interviewed Shrike in 923TE when writing her book In Search Of The Stalkers.

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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 As always, we wanted to hear your recommendations, and toget you started, we asked School Librarian of the Year Emma Suffield for her thoughts: 'Fans of Mortal Engines' fantasy setting would also love the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman, and those wanting more steampunk could try Terror Train by Terry Deary and Show Stopper by Hayley Barker.' Orbital Trash – a short story written by Reeve and published in small press magazine RQC in 1996 shows several concepts and ideas which later resurfaced in the Quartet 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. The Mortal Engines Quartet…". Philip-Reeve.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2014 . Retrieved 17 July 2014.Thaddeus Valentine, the dashing and handsome famous archaeologist and Head of the Guild of Historians on London, formerly a scavenger, and father to Katherine. Philip Reeve (17 March 2020). "Philip Reeve's tweet in response to @SevrinY" (Tweet). Philip Reeve . Retrieved 24 March 2020. 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 Kit Solent's corpse was augmented with technology the Movement had procured from the Remembering Machines to create one of their many resurrected soldiers; it was at this time that he was given the name Shrike. He destroyed two of his fellow Stalkers upon being resurrected but afterward proved an obedient member of the Lazarus Brigade for some time, fighting in major battles of the escalating Nomad Wars, including the long-running Battle of Hill 60. He abandoned the Movement army after recovering a degree of self-awareness but continued fighting on all sides as a mercenary for the rest of the conflict.

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The Dead Continent – North America, supposedly reduced to an irradiated wasteland by the Sixty Minute War. In Predator's Gold, it is proven not to be completely dead; in the north there are forests with some animals that survived the Sixty Minute War. ODIN is more powerful than MEDUSA and is able to hit any target on the surface of the earth. It is an American satellite, as the code for controlling the satellite comes off an American submarine, and it briefly searches for the American cities it was placed in orbit to defend after it is reawakened by the Stalker Fang. ODIN is an energy weapon that converts a small nuclear bomb into a directed incinerating beam (a weapon concept similar to the Strategic Defense Initiative's Project Excalibur). This has the power to exterminate cities (both traction and static) and provoke volcanic eruptions. Its beam can be seen for very long distances and seems to interfere with the mechanical minds of Stalkers. Only Shrike's Old-Tech Stalker brain has the mettle to withstand this, although he goes into a fit-like state; it is hinted that he is saved by Dr. Oenone Zero. Anna Fang is unaffected. Other Stalkers lose all power.Tom and Hester escape by stealing a hot-air balloon and drift over the Hunting Ground. Hester reveals that when she was a child, her parents were killed by Valentine as they would not give up an Ancient machine. Valentine then injured her and believed that she was dead. Hester escaped, and Shrike took care of her for most of her childhood. Despite the fact that Shrike was not supposed to have feelings, he developed a fatherlike bond with her. Wanting to avenge her parents, Hester left Shrike despite his pleas for her to stay and travelled to London. Shrike followed her, reaching London first, but was captured by Crome and used to create more Stalkers for London.

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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. Anchorage-in-Vineland – The static and stable version of the Traction City of Anchorage which had decided to stop wandering the Arctic wastes and settle in the green and unspoiled land of Vineland (in North America). When Anchorage was a Traction City, it was not predatory but chose to gain its wealth by trading with other cities. Shrike (also known in the American release of the series as Grike), an ancient Stalker who raised Hester after her parents were killed and seeks to turn her into a Stalker so she can be with him forever. Chrysler Peavey, the ambitious pirate mayor of Tunbridge Wheels, who Hester knew before she left Shrike.Traction City is a short story written for World Book Day 2011. It details the actions of a policeman in the under tiers of London on the hunt for a stalker. A young Anna Fang explores her early life. Also, The Wild Robotis an unusual but brilliant book about a robot, Roz, who finds herself marooned on a desert island. For more steampunk...

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The Traction Codex is a fictional reference book set in the world of Mortal Engines, written by Philip Reeve and Jeremy Levett. [11] The Traction Codex has only been published in a digital format, as it was originally available only for the digital version of the Mortal Engines Quartet. The book was later made available as a stand-alone e-book.

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He also is shown to have knowledge of how to make Stalkers himself, rather than letting London study him so they could replicate Stalker technology and thus make Hester into a Stalker for him (which he almost succeeded in.). 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 London is the principal Traction City in the novel, which has returned to a Victorian-era society. London's society is divided into four major and several minor Guilds. The Engineers are responsible for maintaining the machines necessary for the survival of London, many of which are found by the Guild of Historians. The Historians are in charge of collecting and preserving highly prized, often dangerous artifacts. The Navigators are responsible for steering and plotting the course of London. The Merchants are in charge of running London's economy. London is officially ruled by an elected Mayor. The Lord Mayor is Magnus Crome, who is also the head of the Guild of Engineers. Like most Traction Cities, London is built on a series of tiers. This encourages the system of social classes, with the wealthier nobles at the top of the city and the lower classes further down, closer to the noise and pollution of the city's massive engines. Atop the whole of London sits St Paul's Cathedral: the only building known to have survived the Sixty Minute War. 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... Plot [ ] Part One [ ] Tom realizes that Pennyroyal never went to America, but instead based his claims on an old map from the Reykjavík library. Tom also discovers that the "ghosts" are actually thieves operating out of a parasitic submarine-like limpet attached to the bottom of the city, who call themselves the Lost Boys. With their secret discovered, they kidnap Tom and leave for their base, the sunken city of Grimsby. Tom befriends Caul, a Lost Boy who tells him that Grimsby was founded by a man called "Uncle", who keeps the Lost Boys under constant surveillance.