Mortal Engines Collection 6 Books Set written by Philip Reeve Mortal Engines Collection 6 Books Set written by Philip Reeve. The mortal engines, winner of Blue Peter Book of the Year is one of the most popular series by Philip Reeve, which comprises of following titles: Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, A Darkling Plain, Fever Crumb, and A Web of Air.
It is a world where cities are built on axles or treads, the number of tiers the city has determines its place on the food chain, and London, even though it has been skulking in the wastelands, is high up there. One of the first cities to take to the treads, it has determined, like a shark, to keep moving, and to keep moving it needs to chase down prey -- smaller cities and towns -- and consume them. literally. It has huge jaws in the lowest tier that open and drag the city or town in, while people from the various guilds wait to dismantle it and take the dwellers as prisoners and slaves. Tom Natsworthy, an apprentice at the Museum of Natural History, has been sent down to help, to make sure that anything of value, such as books or even art, doesn't get recycled in the great maw of Mechanized Darwinism. While there, in the Guts, he runs into his hero Valentine, an archeologist and explorer of renown. Tom manages to save Valentine from being stabbed by a young woman, and chases her. During the chase, one of the Beefeaters manages to
shoot her in the leg. On the edge of the ship, where everything that the ship can't use gets thrown out, she faces Tom, angry that he stopped her. "Ask him," she yells at him just before she jumps off the ship, "Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw." Valentine catches up just after she goes over, and instead of asking, Tom merely tells him what she said her name was and gets thrown over the side for his trouble. Titles and description of 6 Books Set Philip Reeve(Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, A Dark-lingPlain, Fever Crumb, A Web of Air).
Mortal Engines 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. The first installment introduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw, flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground. WINNER of the Blue Peter Book of the Year and the Nestle Smarties Gold Award. Shorlisted for the Whit-bread Children's Book of the Year "Big, brave, brilliant" guardian.
Predator's Gold PREDATOR'S GOLD is the second thrilling installment in Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. When Tom and Hester's scrapyard aircraft is pursued by rocket-firing gunships, they seek sanctuary in the speeding ice city of Anchorage. But it is no safe refuge. Devastated by plague and haunted by ghosts, Anchorage is heading for the Dead Continent. Teens will love this Mortal Engines inventive adventure, and even adults will find it really involving.