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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Instead of snoring in their space pod like the rest of her family, Astra is wide awake. With her robot friend, Pilbeam, she goes exploring and soon finds out the ship is in deep trouble. It's been knocked off course and invaded by a gang of Poglites, an alien salvage crew searching for spoonage (they just love collecting spoons)! But even the Poglites need Astra's help when they discover something far more sinister lurking in the canteen!

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....

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!

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

Max and his best friend, Kevin, the only roly-poly flying pony in Bumbleford, decide to enter the Magical Pony Club Steeplechase. Kevin is not particularly keen, as the other participants are all unicorns, and everybody knows that unicorns are quite snobby. But biscuits are promised, and Kevin wants to make Max proud. As the competition heats up, our inseparable duo uncovers a conspiracy to steal the precious Periwinkle Cup. Max and Kevin will have to intervene to stop the thieves and retrieve the stolen trophy.

Vor zwei Jahren hat sich London selbst zerstört. Tom und Hester leben seitdem an Bord ihres Luftschiffs Jenny Haniver und bereisen die Welt als Händler und Abenteurer. Als in Airhaven ein Passagier ihre Dienste in Anspruch nehmen will, überlegen sie deshalb nicht lange. Zumal es sich um Nimrod Pennyroyal handelt, den größten Forschungsreisenden der Welt. Was könnte da schon schiefgehen? Wie sich herausstellt, so einiges: Denn schon bald werden sie von Kampfschiffen des Grünen Sturms verfolgt und angegriffen.

"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.

Ein neues Zeitalter des Friedens und des Wohlstands ist zum Greifen nah. General Naga, der Anführer des Grünen Sturms, ist fest entschlossen, den Krieg gegen die fahrenden Städte zu beenden und die Welt zur Ruhe kommen zu lassen. Doch als auf seine Frau bei einem Staatsbesuch in Zagwa ein Attentat verübt wird, flammt der alte Hass wieder auf, und die Welt läuft einmal mehr Gefahr, in einen alles vernichtenden Schlagabtausch zu geraten.

Mortal Engines – Der Grüne Sturm ist der dritte Band in Philip Reeves monumentaler Fantasysaga voller Luftschiffe und Piraten, Kopfgeldjäger und fahrender Städte. Die Motoren von Anchorage stehen schon seit langem still, und Wren wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als ihre Heimat zu verlassen und endlich einmal ein Abenteuer zu erleben.

Bumbleford has been hit by a series of biscuit thefts. All the clues lead straight to the only roly-poly flying pony in town and Max's best friend, Kevin! Max and Kevin are forced to go on the run. Will they find the real culprit before Kevin ends up in pony prison?