Mortal Engines / Hungry City Chronicles

Mortal Engines, alternatively known as The Hungry City Chronicles especially in America and formerly called Mortal Engines Quartet, is the title of a quartet of futuristic books authored by quinquagenarian British writer Philip Reeve. This is a thought-provoking and descriptive series of books which revolves around a ‘what if’ scenario of a disastrous worldwide nuclear war. It shows the toe-curling human suffering, desperation, cut-throat competition for basic needs and survival against odds, and the possible annihilation which would ably follow hard on mankind’s heels in the wake of an all-out international thermonuclear warfare.