The Mortal Engines Quartet is the UK and original title of a series of four novels, Mortal Engines (2001), Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, and A Darkling Plain (2006) as well as the prequel Fever Crumb, written by the British author Philip Reeve. It is known in the US as the Hungry City Chronicles.
The Quartet is set in the distant future, in an age known as the Traction Era. Earth has been reduced to wasteland by a devastating conflict, known...
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The Mortal Engines Quartet is the UK and original title of a series of four novels, Mortal Engines (2001), Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, and A Darkling Plain (2006) as well as the prequel Fever Crumb, written by the British author Philip Reeve. It is known in the US as the Hungry City Chronicles.
The Quartet is set in the distant future, in an age known as the Traction Era. Earth has been reduced to wasteland by a devastating conflict, known as the Sixty Minute War. Nations no longer exist, except in the lands of the Anti-Traction League; Traction Cities - entire cities mounted on caterpillar tracks for mobility - are fiercely independent city-states, using giant jaws to devour one another for resources. Trade is mostly accomplished by airship, though sometimes cities of roughly equal size (unable to devour each other) will stop to trade. Old-Tech (technology from before the Traction Era, some of which is from the 21st century) is the most sought-after commodity.
The Orbital...
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