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THE MORTAL ENGINES QUARTET

The Mortal Engines series started with my first novel, Mortal Engines, back in 2001. I then went on to write three sequels, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. Together the books cover nearly twenty years in the history of the Traction Era, a far-future age when cities move about hunting smaller mobile towns and dismantling those they catch for their raw materials. Airships ply the skies, amphibious limpet-submarines lurk in the oceans, and dangerous bits of technology left over from a long-ago war lie waiting to be discovered and put to use in the looming conflict between the cities and their anti-tractionist enemies.

I thought I'd finished with that world when A Darkling Plain was published, but new ideas kept bubbling up, and in 2009 I returned to the dawn of the Traction Era in a prequel, Fever Crumb, about a girl living in London shortly before it starts to be rebuilt as a mobile city. Fever will go on to have more adventures of her own in my next book, A Web of Air, to be published in 2010, and hopefully in further books which will expand the Mortal Engines world.

In this section you will find:

* Some answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

* A short history of the Traction Era, which goes some way towards explaining how and why the mobile cities arose.

* Some entries from Who's Who in the Traction Era, which reveal hitherto unknown details about the lives of some of the characters from the series.

* See inside the Jenny Haniver!

Ian Cooper is a theatre and event designer who has done some work based on Mortal Engines for his recent degree show at Birmingham City University. You can follow this link to find some (rather gruesome) Stalkers and take a tour around the Jenny Haniver: www.youtube.com/iancooper666

A Brief History

Who’s in The Traction Era

Mortal Engines FAQ’s

Mortal Engines mini site

Fever Crumb