It's a book he's turning into a movie due December 2018 (and I can't fucking wait) but here's a description of the world for people who don't know:
Probably about two millennia ago the Ancients (who appear to be humans from around the late 21st to early 23rd century) destroyed themselves in the Sixty Minute War. The weapons used completely fucked up Earth and caused natural disasters and dried up oceans and left it completely unrecognizable. A lot of technological knowledge was lost after the Sixty Minute War so all modern technology is a sort of Victorian-Era Steampunk. Working Ancient tech, which is much more advanced, is incredibly rare and highly sought after though.
Anyway to escape all the turmoil, and to survive, humans built cities on giant traction wheels and built them up on tiers like a wedding cake. These cities then drove around chasing and "eating" (hooking them into the 'gut' of the city to be stripped of resources and the people turned into slaves) smaller towns and cities.
This has been happening for hundreds of years now but, because it's not a sustainable way of living, 'food' has grown scarce. The book is set around London, which was the first traction city.
None of this is actually the story of the book it's just the world it's set in. There's this whole fantastic story that happens which should translate really well into a blockbuster movie.
Edit: And the books called Mortal Engines if you didn't get that from the title of this thread. Don't be put off by the cover like I almost was when I first saw it. The story is far better than the cover of the book makes it out to be.
im_so_not_creative on May 26th, 2017 at 04:43 UTC »
Looks great, is this the one with literal moving city? I seem to remember something like that
Tyler_Vakarian on May 26th, 2017 at 06:07 UTC »
It's a book he's turning into a movie due December 2018 (and I can't fucking wait) but here's a description of the world for people who don't know:
Probably about two millennia ago the Ancients (who appear to be humans from around the late 21st to early 23rd century) destroyed themselves in the Sixty Minute War. The weapons used completely fucked up Earth and caused natural disasters and dried up oceans and left it completely unrecognizable. A lot of technological knowledge was lost after the Sixty Minute War so all modern technology is a sort of Victorian-Era Steampunk. Working Ancient tech, which is much more advanced, is incredibly rare and highly sought after though.
Anyway to escape all the turmoil, and to survive, humans built cities on giant traction wheels and built them up on tiers like a wedding cake. These cities then drove around chasing and "eating" (hooking them into the 'gut' of the city to be stripped of resources and the people turned into slaves) smaller towns and cities.
This has been happening for hundreds of years now but, because it's not a sustainable way of living, 'food' has grown scarce. The book is set around London, which was the first traction city.
None of this is actually the story of the book it's just the world it's set in. There's this whole fantastic story that happens which should translate really well into a blockbuster movie.
Edit: And the books called Mortal Engines if you didn't get that from the title of this thread. Don't be put off by the cover like I almost was when I first saw it. The story is far better than the cover of the book makes it out to be.
Ungreat on May 26th, 2017 at 09:07 UTC »
"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."
Can't wait.