![]() The Predator Cities books are set in a distant future known as the Traction Age where city-states mounted on caterpillar treads for mobility travel around devouring smaller cities in an act known as Municipal Darwinism, which is such a cool concept. A bit confusing, yes, but also indicative of the detailed, layered and complex kind of world builder that Philip Reeve is. ![]() ![]() In 2001, Reeve published Mortal Engines, which became the first in his Mortal Engines Quartet, referred to as the Predator Cities books now that the Fever Crumb Trilogy of books, which take place in the same post-apocalyptic London world but many generations earlier, have been published. Phillip Reeveand David Wyatt have created what can only be called an epic in Larklight OR The Revenge of the White Spiders! OR To Saturn's Rings and Back! : A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space (which has a pretty cool website) and the trilogy of books of the same name. ![]()
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