Mortal Engines - Extract read by Kenneth Branagh

[masterDevis]

"Metal fatigue," lmao! That's a good one, I almost completely forgot about it!

[matse109]

man i love this book

[SocialButterfly100]

OMG at 3:04 Hester sounds like my Uncle!! lol!!!

[ADADMAN2]

hester shaw was kinda freaky..

[alexroxproductions]

when my friend told me about this book,he said it was set a while after nuclear war and there are cities on wheels trying to eat each other,is that correct?

[0neLastShot]

yes, but not just wheels

[Fireicee1]

@alexroxproductions

Correct. This about a thousand years or so after a war called the Sixty Minute War when the Ancients (us today) destroyed ourselves in a nuclear holocaust. Hundreds of years later, a man named Quirke develops a system called Municipal Darwinism, and rebuilds the city of London on wheels. The point of Municipal Darwinism is that a big city "eats" a smaller city, a smaller city "eats" a large town, a large town eats a town, a town a village, and so on. [to be continued]

[Fireicee1]

@Fireicee1 [Continuation]

The reason for the whole eating was that natural resources were becoming scarce and hard to find, so the towns ate each other for fuel and supplies. when a town ate another town, it basically had a team of people to dismantle it and take whatever is useful, and then whatever they can't use they leave. An adventurer/explorer/Indiana-Jo­nes type guy named Thaddeus Valentine comes to London. after that, crazy stuff happens. What, you ask? well read it and find out

[indianajoneszilla]

@Fireicee1 I thought it was more like 10,000 years, for what I can understand. I mean, with the rise and fall of so many civilizations make me think it has been MUCH longer than just 1,000...

[artj22850]

Beautiful!

[TomTom0Go]

such a great novel with an amazing world behind it, not sure on this reading style though, i imagined hester as having a harsher voice...still grat tho

[Matthewsaaan]

This is easily my favourite book ever!

[humangoogle]

I preferred a darkling plain, but this was a great read nontheless...

[Matthewsaaan]

I love the entire series but the first is still probably my favourite.

[MrUnhappyGuy]

Me too. all the books are good, but theres just something about the fist one...

maybe it's bacuse this is the fist gilmps you get of world of moral engines.