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Mortal Engines (2018)

★ 6.2 · 5,075 ratings on TMDB

Some scars never heal

Mortal Engines poster★ 6.2

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.

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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.

zero-distanceNZclasspowerenvironmenttechnologycolonialism
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E7mobilityhabitats are mobile; entire cities can move across the continent and hunt smaller settlements (technology · universal)