Mortal Engines: Mortal Engines, Book 1

by Philip Reeve Narrated by Barnaby Edwards

Overview

The epic city-eat-city adventure is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading this book we knew we wanted to make it into a movie." -- Producer Peter Jackson* "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." -- School Library Journal, starred review¿¿¿Now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a brilliant new world in the Mortal Engines series, called "phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening" by the Sunday Times.

Editorial Reviews

DECEMBER 2018 - AudioFile

Narrator Barnaby Edwards is fully a partner in the world-building of this exciting young adult novel. In the far future after a terrible war, mobile cities brutally consume each other for resources in a system called “Municipal Darwinism.” Edwards establishes voices for highborn Londoners, who live in luxury on the city’s top tiers, and differentiates them from the workers who toil away in the Gut. He creates diverse accents for the aviators, pirates, Anti-Traction League spies, and other characters who hail from locations around the globe. And he adopts a terrifying hiss for a Stalker, a half-man, half-machine relic of the long-ago war. As a young woman tries to avenge her parents’ deaths and London unveils a devastating new weapon, Edwards’s narration carries listeners along on the breathless adventure. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

DECEMBER 2018 - AudioFile

Narrator Barnaby Edwards is fully a partner in the world-building of this exciting young adult novel. In the far future after a terrible war, mobile cities brutally consume each other for resources in a system called “Municipal Darwinism.” Edwards establishes voices for highborn Londoners, who live in luxury on the city’s top tiers, and differentiates them from the workers who toil away in the Gut. He creates diverse accents for the aviators, pirates, Anti-Traction League spies, and other characters who hail from locations around the globe. And he adopts a terrifying hiss for a Stalker, a half-man, half-machine relic of the long-ago war. As a young woman tries to avenge her parents’ deaths and London unveils a devastating new weapon, Edwards’s narration carries listeners along on the breathless adventure. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170856299
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Series:	Mortal Engines Series , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,036,666
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

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