Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
Published by Scholastic
304pp, Fiction, 0-439-97943-9, £5.99
'It's a town eat town world and Tom has been brought up to believe that municipal Darwinism is a noble and beautiful system. He joins the celebrations as the great traction city of London speeds across the Out-Country gobbling up smaller towns in its path and recycling them for spare parts. Both imaginatively and intelligently conceived, there are no predictable outcomes in this tale where the characters grow convincingly in response to their trials.'
Reviewed in BfK No. 136 (September 2002) by ()
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