Some scars never heal

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
Mortal Engines keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, power, environment, technology, colonialism.