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In 1851 a mysterious visitor to Art Mumby's space home has plans for a calamity that will destroy not only the entire British Empire, but also the known universe. Can disaster be prevented with help from Art's irritating sister Myrtle, a few exotic space creatures, and an extraterrestrial pirate?

London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.

Tamzin Pook and her group of unlikely fighters-turned-friends have managed to make it out of Thorbury alive. Now with a massive, terrifying, armored, and un-dead Revenant (and its pet kitten) as one of their gang.

The mighty engines of Anchorage have been rusted and dead for years. The derelict city no longer roams the Ice Wastes, but has settled on the edge of the land that was once America. Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw are happy in the safety of a static settlement, but their daughter, Wren, is desperate for adventure. When a dangerously charming submarine pirate offers her a chance to escape, Wren doesn't think twice about leaving her home and her parents behind. But the pirate wants something in return - Wren must steal the mysterious Tin Book.

Welcome to the astounding world of Predator Cities! 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.

Return to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang. In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang - pilot, adventurer, spy - isn't afraid. The three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for the Anti-Traction league....

With the great Traction City of London completely destroyed, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw travel across the world, trading with other airships and adventuring on the exciting and exotic routes of the Bird Roads. When their little scrapyard aircraft is pursued by rocket-firing gunships, the ice city of Anchorage offers them sanctuary.

Tamzin Pook is a fighter in the Amusement Arcade. And what she does best is killing Revenants. All she knows is survival, having arrived in the Arcade as a small child. She pushes away her memories, her hopes, and her fears, and she emerges into the arena to battle the Revenants—dead brains nestled in armored engine bodies. She doesn't dare to hope or wish for anything more than to survive another day.

Tamzin Pook and her group of unlikely fighters-turned-friends have managed to make it out of Thorbury alive. Now with a massive, terrifying, armored, and un-dead Revenant (and its pet kitten) as one of their gang. For their next mission, Tamzin and her friends head to the city of Museion to help save it from the ferocious predator suburbs that surround it and keep it trapped in the mountain valley known as the Frying Pan.

Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London. Now she arrives in the extraordinary city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs - but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets.

Londres es una ciudad sobre ruedas: una ciudad como nunca habías visto. Tras la terrible Guerra de los Sesenta Minutos, las ciudades que sobrevivieron al apocalipsis se convirtieron en depredadoras, persiguiendo a ciudades menores y alimentándose de ellas. Londres es una de ellas y se encuentra a la caza de una pequeña urbe, cuando Tom se topa con una joven asesina. Ambos acabarán en la Región Exterior, un páramo desolador marcado por las huellas de las ciudades ambulantes.

The Scriven people are brilliant, mad - and dead. All except one, whose monstrous creation is nearly complete - a giant city on wheels. New London terrifies the rest of the world, and an army of mammoth-riders gathers to fight it. Meanwhile, young Fever Crumb begins a hunt for Ancient technology in their icy strongholds. She finds a mysterious black pyramid full of secrets. It will change her world forever. Scrivener's Moon follows Fever Crumb and A Web of Air to complete one of the most exciting and inventive fantasy adventures series ever recorded for audio.

At the edge of space, a mysterious cloud appears. The last transmission from a remote outpost near the cloud warns of grave danger. Now Art, Myrtle, and the rest of the family launch an investigation - and what they find is so horribly, terribly monstrous that not even a billion mothballs will keep it at bay!

The extraordinary adventure of that book continues in Starcross, as Art and Myrtle receive an ominous warning from an ancient superhuman (their mum). The solar system is on the brink of invasion - from highly intelligent hats from the future!

Antes de Tom y Wren... estaba Anna Fang. Vuelos nocturnos es un Spin Off de la tetralogía «Mortal Engines», una trepidante y original historia llena de misterio, con una ambientación única en un mundo futurista y postapocalíptico. Las novelas en las que se basa la superproducción cinematográfica de Peter Jackson. Vuela. Lucha. Vive. En un peligroso futuro donde enormes ciudades motorizadas se atacan y devoran entre sí, Londres es un depredador que caza donde ningún otro se atreve. Pero Anna Fang, piloto, aventurera y espía, no conoce el miedo.

Última entrega de la tetralogía «Mortal Engines», una trepidante y original historia llena de misterio, con una ambientación única en un mundo futurista y postapocalíptico. Londres no es más que un montón de escombros radioactivos. Pero la vieja ciudad depredadora esconde un secreto que podría traer la paz. Mientras Tom y Wren arriesgan sus vidas para descubrirlo, Hester deberá enfrentarse sola a un viejo enemigo que pretende destruir la raza humana.

La hija de Tom y Hester, Wren, anhela huir de la monotonía de Anchorage. Está sedienta de aventura. Cuando un pirata submarino peligrosamente encantador le ofrece una oportunidad para escapar, Wren no lo duda ni un instante. Pero el pirata quiere algo a cambio: Wren debe robar el misterioso Libro de Hojalata, y hacerlo acarreará consecuencias que podrían destruir la paz...

Tom y Hester están en un vertedero helado esperando a la muerte tras un fallo en los motores de la Jenny Haniver. Pero, en el último momento, los dos darán con Anchorage, una ciudad de hielo que habría sucumbido tiempo atrás.

في زمنٍ قادم، حيث المدن تسير فوق عجلات ضخمة، والبقاء لايكون إلا للأقوى. يصحبنا أبطالنا في مغامراتٍ شائقة عبر طرقٍ وعرة في ساحة الصيد العظمى. نغوص معهم في أعماق...

"Mortal Engines - Krieg der Städte" ist der Auftaktband zu Philip Reeves monumentaler Fantasyserie voller Luftschiffe und Piraten, Kopfgeldjäger und Aeronauten - und fahrender Städte. Niemand hatte mit einem Attentat gerechnet. Als das Mädchen mit dem Tuch vor dem Gesicht ein Messer zückt, um den Obersten Historiker Londons, Thaddeus Valentine, umzubringen, kann ihm der junge Gehilfe Tom in letzter Sekunde das Leben retten. Er verfolgt das Mädchen, das jedoch durch einen Entsorgungsschacht in die Außenlande entkommt.