Mortal Engines The Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve 🏆

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. It is the first book in The Hungry City Chronicles series, a young adult science fiction series set in a post-apocalyptic world. Summary: - Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction, Steampunk. - Author: Philip Reeve. - Series: The first book in The Hungry City Chronicles, also known as the Mortal Engines Quartet. - Premise: In a future world, after a devastating "Sixty Minute War," cities have become giant mobile machines that move across a barren Earth, consuming smaller towns for resources in a practice called "Municipal Darwinism". Plot: The story follows a teenage apprentice historian named Tom Natsworthy, who lives on the moving city of London. After a mysterious, scarred girl named Hester Shaw attempts to assassinate the revered Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, Tom intervenes. He is subsequently pushed from the moving city by Valentine and must survive in the dangerous wasteland alongside Hester. As their adventure unfolds, they uncover dark secrets about Valentine's past, a powerful "Old-Tech" weapon called MEDUSA, and a conflict that threatens to destroy the world as they know it. The book was adapted into a major feature film in 2018.