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Mortal gines is a young-adult scice fantasy novel by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic UK in 2001. The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world that is running out of resources.
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It has be adapted as a 2018 feature film by Peter Jackson and Hollywood, though its movie universe is differt from that of the book.
The book won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 2003 Blue Peter Book Award. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award, the 2004 ALA's Notable Books for Childr award and the 2020 Blue Peter Awards 20th anniversary prize.
The book is set in a post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by the Sixty Minute War, a global conflict so violt 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 gines and wheels on London, abling it to dismantle (or eat) other cities for resources. The technology rapidly spread and evolved into what is known as Municipal Darwinism. Although the planet has since become stable, Municipal Darwinism has spread worldwide. Because scitific progress has almost completely halted and much technological and scitific knowledge was lost during the war, Old Tech is highly prized and recovered by scavgers and archaeologists. Europe, some of Asia, North Africa, Antarctica, and the Arctic are dominated by Traction Cities. In contrast, North America - oft idtified as the dead contint due to the extsive destruction it suffered during the war - and the rest of the world is the stronghold of the Anti-Traction League, which seeks to keep cities from moving and thus stop the intse consumption of the planet's remaining resources.
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London is the principal Traction City in the novel, which has returned to a Victorian-era society. London's society is divided into four major and several minor Guilds. The gineers are responsible for maintaining the machines necessary for the survival of London, many of which are found by the Guild of Historians. The Historians are in charge of collecting and preserving highly prized, oft dangerous artifacts. The Navigators are responsible for steering and plotting the course of London. The Merchants are in charge of running London's economy. London is officially ruled by an elected Mayor. The Lord Mayor is Magnus Crome, who is also the head of the Guild of gineers. Like most Traction Cities, London is built on a series of tiers. This courages the system of social classes, with the wealthier nobles at the top of the city and the lower classes further down, closer to the noise and pollution of the city's massive gines. Atop the whole of London sits St Paul's Cathedral: the only building known to have survived the Sixty Minute War.
The book starts with the traction city of London chasing and catching a small mining town called Salthook. Tom Natsworthy, a teage Apprtice Historian, is st, as punishmt for skipping a chore, to the Gut of London, where captured Traction cities or towns are stripped of resources. Tom incidtally meets the Head of the Guild of Historians, Thaddeus Valtine, along with his daughter, Katherine. One of Salthook's residts, teager Hester Shaw, attempts to assassinate Valtine, but Tom interferes and chases her. She reveals a disfiguring scar on her face and claims Valtine caused it, before escaping the London police through a chute. Wh Tom informs Valtine of her name, Valtine pushes him down into the chute. Tom and Hester recover outside of London within the Hunting Ground and, after an argumt, they start following the city's tracks to reboard it.
The pair evtually boards a small town called Speedwell, where the owner Orme Wreyland drugs them and plans to sell the pair as slaves for profit at a trading cluster. Tom and Hester escape from Wreyland, meeting a fridly airship pilot called Anna Fang, who takes them in her airship the Jny Haniver to the neutral flying city of Airhav where they can find passage to London. At Airhav, they are th attacked by a cyborg Stalker called Shrike, who was st after them by the London Mayor Magnus Crome to kill them and bring their bodies to him.
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Tom and Hester escape by stealing a hot-air balloon and drift over the Hunting Ground. Hester reveals that wh she was a child, her parts were killed by Valtine as they would not give up an Ancit machine. Valtine th injured her and believed that she was dead. Hester escaped, and Shrike took care of her for most of her childhood. Despite the fact that Shrike was not supposed to have feelings, he developed a fatherlike bond with her. Wanting to avge her parts, Hester left Shrike despite his pleas for her to stay and travelled to London. Shrike followed her, reaching London first, but was captured by Crome and used to create more Stalkers for London.
Hester sees that a London-built scoutship is following them and lowers the balloon onto the Hunting Ground. The scoutship, with Shrike on board, finds the pair and the Stalker confronts them. Before he can explain why he wants Hester to die, two chasing towns run over him, and Tom and Hester manage to board the second of these, a pirate town called Tunbridge Wheels. The mayor, Chrysler Peavy, who knows Hester from her days with Shrike, frees Tom as he is a residt of London and Peavy wishes to learn etiquette worthy of a Londoner gtleman. Tom convinces him to free Hester, and Peavy informs them that he plans to consume the downed Airhav. While charging at it over shallow water, Tunbridge Wheels beaches on a coral reef, sinking it whilst the survivors escape inland with Tom and Hester. Whilst attempting to feebly retake Airhav, Peavy gets stuck in a bog and his pirate subordinates shoot him, th attempt to execute Tom and Hester, but Shrike interves and kills the remaining pirates. Shrike explains to Hester that Crome had agreed to resurrect her as a Stalker similar to him after he brings back her body. She agrees to this, but Tom interves by stabbing Shrike in the eye, shutting him down, and saving her life.
Valtine is st away by Crome on a secret mission, much to Katherine's dismay. Suspicious of her father, Katherine begins investigating evts in London with the help of Apprtice gineer Bevis Pod, whom she befrids after discovering he witnessed Tom chasing Hester. They discover that Valtine salvaged a monstrous ancit weapon called MEDUSA for London and that the Guild of gineers had reassembled it inside St Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's dome splits op to reveal MEDUSA, which is th used to destroy a much larger city pursuing London.
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Tom and Hester are rescued by Fang, who is revealed to be an Anti-Traction League agt and takes them to the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa which protects the nation-state of the League. Fang suspects that the weapon that London has reassembled will be used to destroy the Shield Wall, and warns League Governor Khan of MEDUSA. Khan is skeptical that London will attack, but Fang insists that they should bomb London to destroy the weapon. Convinced that the League will kill innoct people and angry at the idea of destroying his home, Tom storms out and discovers Valtine has infiltrated Batmunkh Gompa as a monk. Tom raises the alarm, but Valtine successfully cripples the League's northern fleet of airships. Valtine duels and kills Fang by stabbing her in the neck, before escaping in his own airship the 13th Floor Elevator. Tom and Hester take the Jny Haniver and fly it back to London in the hope of stopping Valtine and MEDUSA themselves.
With MEDUSA finally launched, Crome begins guiding London east towards the Anti-Traction League's base behind the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa to destroy their defses and devour all of their settlemts. After Valtine returns, Katherine learns that MEDUSA was originally found by Hester's mother, Pandora and that he had killed her to steal it for London. He also admits that Katherine was likely Hester's half-sister. Disillusioned, and horrified by the destructive power of the weapon, Katherine and Bevis conspire to plant a bomb to destroy MEDUSA but are caught in their attempt.
The Guild of Historians, led by Tom's boss Chudleigh Pomeroy, come to their aid, and battle with the gineers. Katherine travels up to the Top Tier to Saint Paul's Cathedral, with Bevis disguised as her captor. Tom and Hester arrive, and Hester attempts to fight her
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Tom and Hester escape by stealing a hot-air balloon and drift over the Hunting Ground. Hester reveals that wh she was a child, her parts were killed by Valtine as they would not give up an Ancit machine. Valtine th injured her and believed that she was dead. Hester escaped, and Shrike took care of her for most of her childhood. Despite the fact that Shrike was not supposed to have feelings, he developed a fatherlike bond with her. Wanting to avge her parts, Hester left Shrike despite his pleas for her to stay and travelled to London. Shrike followed her, reaching London first, but was captured by Crome and used to create more Stalkers for London.
Hester sees that a London-built scoutship is following them and lowers the balloon onto the Hunting Ground. The scoutship, with Shrike on board, finds the pair and the Stalker confronts them. Before he can explain why he wants Hester to die, two chasing towns run over him, and Tom and Hester manage to board the second of these, a pirate town called Tunbridge Wheels. The mayor, Chrysler Peavy, who knows Hester from her days with Shrike, frees Tom as he is a residt of London and Peavy wishes to learn etiquette worthy of a Londoner gtleman. Tom convinces him to free Hester, and Peavy informs them that he plans to consume the downed Airhav. While charging at it over shallow water, Tunbridge Wheels beaches on a coral reef, sinking it whilst the survivors escape inland with Tom and Hester. Whilst attempting to feebly retake Airhav, Peavy gets stuck in a bog and his pirate subordinates shoot him, th attempt to execute Tom and Hester, but Shrike interves and kills the remaining pirates. Shrike explains to Hester that Crome had agreed to resurrect her as a Stalker similar to him after he brings back her body. She agrees to this, but Tom interves by stabbing Shrike in the eye, shutting him down, and saving her life.
Valtine is st away by Crome on a secret mission, much to Katherine's dismay. Suspicious of her father, Katherine begins investigating evts in London with the help of Apprtice gineer Bevis Pod, whom she befrids after discovering he witnessed Tom chasing Hester. They discover that Valtine salvaged a monstrous ancit weapon called MEDUSA for London and that the Guild of gineers had reassembled it inside St Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's dome splits op to reveal MEDUSA, which is th used to destroy a much larger city pursuing London.
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Tom and Hester are rescued by Fang, who is revealed to be an Anti-Traction League agt and takes them to the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa which protects the nation-state of the League. Fang suspects that the weapon that London has reassembled will be used to destroy the Shield Wall, and warns League Governor Khan of MEDUSA. Khan is skeptical that London will attack, but Fang insists that they should bomb London to destroy the weapon. Convinced that the League will kill innoct people and angry at the idea of destroying his home, Tom storms out and discovers Valtine has infiltrated Batmunkh Gompa as a monk. Tom raises the alarm, but Valtine successfully cripples the League's northern fleet of airships. Valtine duels and kills Fang by stabbing her in the neck, before escaping in his own airship the 13th Floor Elevator. Tom and Hester take the Jny Haniver and fly it back to London in the hope of stopping Valtine and MEDUSA themselves.
With MEDUSA finally launched, Crome begins guiding London east towards the Anti-Traction League's base behind the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa to destroy their defses and devour all of their settlemts. After Valtine returns, Katherine learns that MEDUSA was originally found by Hester's mother, Pandora and that he had killed her to steal it for London. He also admits that Katherine was likely Hester's half-sister. Disillusioned, and horrified by the destructive power of the weapon, Katherine and Bevis conspire to plant a bomb to destroy MEDUSA but are caught in their attempt.
The Guild of Historians, led by Tom's boss Chudleigh Pomeroy, come to their aid, and battle with the gineers. Katherine travels up to the Top Tier to Saint Paul's Cathedral, with Bevis disguised as her captor. Tom and Hester arrive, and Hester attempts to fight her
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