TY - BOOK AU - Reeve,Philip TI - Mortal engines T2 - Mortal engines quartet SN - 9781760661878 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Lindfield, NSW PB - Scholastic Australia KW - Natsworthy, Tom, KW - Shaw, Hester, KW - Natsworthy, Tom KW - Dystopias KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Historians KW - Young adult fiction KW - Technology KW - Friendship KW - Competition (Psychology) KW - Social conflict KW - Conduct of life KW - Science fiction KW - fast KW - London (England) KW - Australian KW - Steampunk fiction KW - lcgft KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Fiction KW - Young adult works KW - gsafd N1 - Originally published: 2001; 12+ N2 - In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers. 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 ER -