Things don’t go as planned and the novel’s adventure is off and running. Tom is a young man from London, excited as anyone that the old city is returning to the Great Hunting Grounds. Europe became a wasteland of picked over mud and death. Sometime in the distant past (still our far future), London began a movement of movement, where cities became giant rolling things, chasing and devouring anyone and anything they could. With Mortal Engines, we are thrust into the far, far future where the world has been reshaped by war, ecological disaster, and continued strife. I’ve been meaning to reread at the very least Mortal Engines for some time, and with all the recent talk of the film adaptation from Peter Jackson and Co., I thought now’s as good a time as any. They catapulted to the top of my list of favorite Science Fiction series. I first read Mortal Engines (and the three follow-up novels that make the Mortal Engines Quartet ) by Philip Reeve, about ten years ago.
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