Urbivore – a short story written by Reeve in the 1990s, which – along with the above – became the basis for the Quartet 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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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. If you're on to a good thing, why stop? Lots of you suggested trying more books by Philip, with Railheadgetting love from @bookthesp1, @WstonesClifton, @MrEFinch and @Lurkio38(who described it as 'another brilliant series'). Shrike was mentioned by Hester when she and Tom planned how to defeat the Huntsmen to save Anchorage.

The allusion here reflects on the character's true nature, a common occurrence in the naming scheme of Mortal Engines. Other examples are MEDUSA and ODIN. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 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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Six months later, General Naga, now the leader of the Green Storm, has formed a truce with the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, producing a new era of peace. 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.And if you like all those @konallis has another Garth Nix recommendation for you:the Keys to the Kingdomseries. The Guardians by John Christopher Thaddeus Valentine, the dashing and handsome famous archaeologist and Head of the Guild of Historians on London, formerly a scavenger, and father to Katherine. This story would later be rewritten as the short story Traction City Blues in the compilation Night Flights. The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines (2018) is a guide to the world of the Traction Era, expanding on The Traction Codex. Written by Philip Reeve and Jeremy Levett and designed by Jamie Gregory, it features illustrations from a variety of artists. Ian McQue and David Wyatt have both also designed covers for the Mortal Engines series. The book also features illustrations by Amir Zand, Rob Turpin, Aedel Fahkrie, and Philip Varbanov, and maps designed by Lowtuff and illustrated by Maxime Plasse.

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In the 2018 film, Shrike is notable as one of the most faithfully adapted elements in a film whose script otherwise takes numerous narrative and aesthetic liberties with the original novel. The book won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 2003 Blue Peter Book Award. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award, the 2004 ALA's Notable Books for Children award and the 2020 Blue Peter Awards 20th anniversary prize. [4] [5] [6] Synopsis [ edit ] Setting [ edit ]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. Readers in Year 7-9 will enjoy Sarah Govett's The Territorytrilogy, an eco-dystopia that combines environmental threats with pressures on young people. Or Sally Garner's Maggot Moonis a thought-provoking dystopian 1950s Britain ruled by the oppressive Motherland. For more exciting fantasy or science fiction Jenny Haniver – named for the carcass of a dried-out skate or ray resembling a demon (this ship is later renamed the Arctic Roll) 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.). 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 [ ]