They are forced to work together to try and make it back to London in order to learn the truth behind the city’s motivations and the future of their world. Tom Natsworthy, an apprentice historian working in the futurized version of London, finds himself thrown off London in an apparent accident that results with him stuck on the ground with the mysterious, scar-faced Hester Shaw. These new, mobilized cities all follow the rules of Municipal Darwinism, a play on Charles Darwin’s famous “survival of the fittest” by scavenging smaller cities and capturing them. “Mortal Engines” takes place on a dystopian, post-apocalyptic Earth as cities have risen up from the ground and donned wheels, becoming large, mobile fleets. Edward Keen, Arts Editor | NovemThe cover for the re-release by Scholastic.
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