Mortal Engines By Philip Reeve
3 ½ of 5 Stars
This book is an interesting version of what the future might include for the cities of the world several thousand years from now. Cities that are on wheels and eat each other which can be good and can also be very bad. For one, in this futuristic world there are no real wars because no city can trust the other not to turn on it so “wars” are limited to games of cat and mouse between stronger and weaker cities. This is also very bad because there is no way for the smaller towns and villages to survive. The book mentions Darwinism as the main reason for the way the world is at this time, except that Darwinism was for species, not entire cities.
This book was well written with interesting plotlines and an even more interesting setting, and so while I did not enjoy it enough to read the rest of the series, I did enjoy it enough to think about the idea even after the book was done with.
1 comment:
This sounds crazy -- science fiction in a far off future -- I wonder how the next 3 in the series are as well.
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