Mortal Engines Quartet
The ''Mortal Engines Quartet'' (''Hungry City Chronicles'' in the United States), also known as the ''Predator Cities Quartet'', is a series of epic young adult fantasy novels by the British novelist and illustrator Philip Reeve. 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). The series is set thousands of years after the Sixty Minute War has devastated Earth. It tells the story of young adventurers in the Traction Era, when moving cities roam for resources, achieved by attacking and devouring each other. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for ''Mortal Engines'' and the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction for ''A Darkling Plain''. A companion piece entitled ' ...
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