- Children's stories, English, Science fiction, Steampunk, Fiction
"London is hunting its prey" Cities have been turned into giant vehicles that roam around the world, eating each other for fuel and metal.
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Classical in form, epic, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Reeve
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 293
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Heinemann, Scholastic Australia
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439979436
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“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”
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