Mortal Engines: 1 (Mortal Engines Quartet)

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Leadbeater, Alex (5 June 2018). "The 7 Biggest Changes Mortal Engines Makes To The Book". Screen Rant . Retrieved 29 October 2019.

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Thaddeus Valentine, the dashing and handsome famous archaeologist and Head of the Guild of Historians on London, formerly a scavenger, and father to Katherine.

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. Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles, #1)". goodreads.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018 . Retrieved 26 November 2018. 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. Katherine Valentine – Thaddeus Valentine's daughter who, after uncovering her father's dark secret, attempts to stop him with help from Bevis Pod and the Guild of Historians. She is accidentally killed by Thaddeus shortly before the destruction of MEDUSA and London. Which got us wondering, whats the big deal with these books anyway? So let’s t ake a look at the source material.

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This story would later be rewritten as the short story Traction City Blues in the compilation Night Flights. His plans to write a science fiction novel were laid in the late 1980s. [6] At that time, he has stated that he originally thought of the idea of traction cities when people where complaining about the growth of a city that threatened to engulf smaller towns. A loosely-related short story Urbivore, as well as Orbital Trash, written earlier served as a basis for the novel. It has several similarities and differences to the eventual settings of the story. Jones, Rhys (9 October 2010). "An Interview with Philip Reeve". thirstforFiction.com . Retrieved 30 October 2010.Anna Fang – an Asian pilot and former owner of the Jenny Haniver, who is also a leading agent of the Anti-Traction League. She is killed at the end of Mortal Engines, but is resurrected as the Stalker Fang, who overthrows the rulers of the League and installs herself as a military dictator. The Fever Crumb Series is a second series of novels set centuries or millennia before the events depicted in the Quartet. The main character is Fever Crumb, a London Engineer who is partially descended from the Scriven, a mutant race of humans. The series also introduced the character Shrike, revealing his origins before he became a Stalker. The Fever Crumb series also visits many of the locations not depicted in the Mortal Engines Quartet. Valentine is sent away by Crome on a "secret mission", much to Katherine's dismay. Suspicious of her father, Katherine begins investigating events in London, along with Apprentice Engineer Bevis Pod, whom she befriends after discovering he witnessed Tom chasing Hester. They discover that Valentine salvaged an Old Tech weapon called MEDUSA for London, and that the Guild of Engineers have reassembled it inside St Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's dome transforms to reveal the weapon, which is then used to destroy a much larger city pursuing London. Bujak, Gabrielle (13 November 2020). "Why HBO Should Reboot Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines UnBoxed Life". www.unboxedlifemag.com. UnBoxed Life.

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Katherine Valentine, Thaddeus Valentine's daughter who begins to become suspicious about her father's activities. a b Reeve, Philip. SFFS Guest Talk – Philip Reeve. Nottingham University: James Boucher. Archived from the original on 6 June 2016 . Retrieved 27 November 2016– via YouTube. The traveller Chung-Mai Spofforth interviewed Shrike in 923TE when writing her book In Search Of The Stalkers. Hester is then kidnapped by a Green Storm informant and taken to Rogue's Roost, where the Green Storm have converted Anna Fang's body into a Stalker. Sathya, the Green Storm commander, hopes Hester's presence will restore Fang's memories, but the resurrected Fang does not recognise herself or Hester. Sathya reveals that Hester's father was Thaddeus Valentine. Shrike (Grike in the American releases) – an ancient Stalker who raised Hester after her parents were killed.

As well as its immensely powerful weaponry, ODIN appears to show signs of intelligence. When it is awakened, it queries its new position and briefly searches for its old masters, and notes the vast difference in geography since its last awakening. It can also zoom in to an individual's face on the Earth and, although the picture is grainy, it is still identifiable. It can change its orbit when directed to target all over the globe. This, as well as the Stalker minds found among Old-Tech (and Shrike), seems to prove that robots had, by the time of the Sixty Minute War, achieved sentience. The Mortal Engines world was originally written as an alternative universe set in the early 1900s, but Reeve has stated this turned out to require just too much explaining as how and where history could have diverged. He was inspired to start then due to The War of the Worlds. [9] Critical reception [ edit ] The Traction Codex is a fictional reference book set in the world of Mortal Engines, written by Philip Reeve and Jeremy Levett. [11] The Traction Codex has only been published in a digital format, as it was originally available only for the digital version of the Mortal Engines Quartet. The book was later made available as a stand-alone e-book. Ezard, John (28 September 2006). "Philip Reeve wins the Guardian children's fiction prize". Guardian Unlimited. London. Archived from the original on 23 January 2007 . Retrieved 21 December 2007. Children might enjoy Peter Bunzl's Coghearttrilogy, which explores an alternative Victorian era, full of silver ships and mechanical marvels, or Vashti Harrison's Brightstorm, the story of 12-year-old twins Maudie and Arthur who journey to South Polaris.

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Children could try Juman Malouf's The Trilogy of Two, about twins that are musical prodigies – with magical gifts - and grow up in a circus. Shrike continued to wander the earth during the age of the Traction Cities, as there were many who sought the services of such a proficient killer. At one time he worked as an executioner in Paris, where he was greatly feared by criminals, who still thought him as a sort of dark god long after his departure. Later he served as an assassin in the service of the government of Kutsoi, but this ended when he turned on and killed the mayor who had sent him after the young children of a political opponent. Shrike then fled into the out-country and made a living as a bounty hunter, further developing his fearsome reputation. Natsworthy has lived his entire life on his little section of London. His sheltered existence becomes the lens through which the readers will come to know the world of the Mortal Engines. He is the reader surrogate, there to ask the questions we would ask. Like, why are humans living on mobile freakin’ cities? Asia – The stronghold of the Anti-Traction League. Eastern China is evidently eradicated by the War and the Himalayas serve as the center for Anti-Tractionist civilization, where the mountains make it impossible for mobile cities to approach.

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Chudleigh Pomeroy, the Deputy Head of the Guild of Historians and Tom's overzealous boss, who assists Katherine. The Ice Wastes – New name for the Arctic, wherein Traction Cities use iron runners to skate across the ice. In some places, the ice is thin, and they risk falling into the ocean.