Talk:Mortal Engines Quartet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Literature Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to narrative novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Science fiction task force. (with unknown importance)
Assessment comments This article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

Definitely merge. Merging this into the main article for the books still leaves a very small article. Ling.Nut 07:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

i agree with the idea of a merge--Aaronpark 23:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 American Empire and Greater China 2 Mortal Engines quartet 3 Changed Name 4 Film

[edit] American Empire and Greater China

I've removed the following section:

The Future American Empire consists of the USA, Mexico and parts of the Middle East and Caribbean. It comes to an end as it fights a nuclear war with Greater China. Greater China is a fictional Coalition consisting of China, Korea, Japan and Mongolia, under the rule of the Chinese.

These were originally their own articles, and got merged into this, but frankly they shouldn't have existed in the first place. Only vague allusions are made to the "American Empire" and China, and there's nothing to support the fact that, say, Mexico was part of it. Battle Ape 04:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Well I've read all four of the Hungry City Chronicles, and something confuses me. In the first three books, Shrike is referred to as Grike. Yet in a Darkling Plain, the last novel, he is referred to as Shrike, and no longer Grike...so did I get copies with errors or...?

In the British novels he is referred to as "Shrike," in the American novels (because Americans like to change things for no reason) he is called "Grike." Did you read different versions? Battle Ape 03:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mortal Engines quartet

Should this be moved to Mortal Engines quartet, because this is the name used on the new British editions. Hungry City Chronicles is the American name and when this aricle was created there probably wasn't another name. James P Twomey 17:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changed Name

I changed the name " Hungry City Chronicles" to " Mortal Engines Quartet because it is written by a british author and that is the british name. Does anyone know how to change the name of the articles, by the way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.240.105.116 (talk) 10:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Film

It says this under the Film heading in the article:
"The film rights of the series have been sold. There will be two movies, one combining Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold, and the other combining Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain."
And it references this article:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117951893.html?categoryid=1246&cs=1
But when you actually read the article referenced it is clear that the film rights have not yet been sold to any movie companies. It is just that Scholastic bought the film rights to the series and intends to sell them, but unless there is more information out there on this, it appears that the film rights haven't yet been sold to anyone who could actually make a movie. So if this one reference is the basis for this section, it really shouldn't be there at all.