‘‘Beneath their cheerful bunny faces, his slippers had steel toe caps’’: Traction Cities, Postmodernisms, and Coming of Age in Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines and Predator’s Gold

This article discusses Philip Reeve’s young adult science fiction novels as literary collages. It explores the ways in which the author uses postmodernisms to introduce big ideas and construct a compelling futuristic world that combines fast-paced adventure with the bildungsroman.