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The book is set in a post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by the "Sixty Minute War", a global conflict so violent it caused massive geological upheaval. To escape earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural threats, a Nomad leader called Nikola Quercus (known throughout the Quartet as Nicholas Quirke, and revered as a deity) installed massive engines and wheels on London, enabling it to ...
Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk film directed by Christian Rivers from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Philip Reeve. It stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang.
The Mortal Engines Quartet is a science fiction and fantasy novel series by Philip Reeve. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Mortal Engines is a 2001 novel by Philip Reeve. Mortal Engines may also refer to: Mortal Engines, a 2018 film based on the novel; Mortal Engines Quartet, the series of which Reeve's book is a part; Mortal Engines, a collection of short stories by Stanislaw Lem
He began the first volume of the series, Mortal Engines, in the 1980s, and it was published in 2001. Reeve then published three further novels, Predator's Gold (2003), Infernal Devices (2005), and A Darkling Plain (2006). [3] The series is set thousands of years in the future, after the Sixty Minute War has devastated Earth.
Based on Chris Marker's short film, La Jetée (1962). [4] [5] [6]: 34 984: Prisoner of the Future: 1982 The election of the extremist Dr. Fontaine in Canada brings about a totalitarian regime, upon which businessman Tom Weston and others are taken prisoner on suspicion of being part a counter-revolutionary plot.
The Book, bearing the insignia of the President of the United States of America, contains the activation codes for the final remaining orbital weapons left over from the Sixty Minute War; potentially with firepower far greater than that of MEDUSA, which destroyed the Traction City of London in Mortal Engines. After meeting former Lost Boy now ...