Children's Audiobooks · Teen & Young Adult
Night Flights: A Mortal Engines Collection by Philip Reeve, Ian McQue
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Night Flights follows Anna Fang, a pilot, adventurer, and spy in the dangerous future world of Mortal Engines, where enormous motorized cities roam the earth and attack one another. While London hunts prey that other cities would avoid, Anna refuses to be intimidated by the dangers surrounding her. This collection brings together three short stories that reveal the experiences behind Anna’s reputation as a fearless aviatrix. The stories reach back to her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, then follow her through a terrifying encounter with a robotic Stalker that has fallen dangerously out of control.
In another chapter of her life, Anna is free and working as an intelligence agent for the Anti-Traction League. Linked by Anna’s struggle to survive deadly machines, hostile cities, and shifting loyalties, these stories explore the making of a rebellious heroine whose courage is tested at every stage of her life.
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Is This Right for You?
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You’ll probably enjoy this if…
- Readers who want more of Anna Fang’s backstory
- Fans of mobile-city science fiction and steampunk adventure
- Listeners looking for a short audiobook with several connected episodes
- Young adult readers drawn to rebellious, resourceful protagonists
It might not be the best fit if…
- Readers seeking a full-length novel with extensive secondary-character development
- Anyone wanting a broad, evidence-backed assessment of production quality
- Listeners who prefer contemporary realism over mechanically elaborate dystopian worlds
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Our Take
Night Flights should appeal to young adult science-fiction readers who enjoy vividly mechanical worlds, rebellious heroes, and backstory delivered in brisk short-story form. Its strongest draw is Anna Fang herself: the collection follows the experiences that made her formidable rather than treating her courage as a given. Barnaby Edwards has some developing support for varied character accents, but the wider audiobook-performance picture remains limited.
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Runtime & Edition Details
- Runtime
- 2 hours and 51 minutes
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Publisher
- Scholastic Audio Books
- Audiobook release date
- August 28, 2018
- Language
- English
- ASIN
- B07G8Q2PN3
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FAQ
Do I need to know the wider Mortal Engines series first?
The collection is designed to deepen the Mortal Engines world through Anna Fang’s history, so familiarity with the setting may make its returning details more meaningful. It still has a focused shape, following Anna across three stages of her life.
Is this a full-length novel?
No. Night Flights is a collection of three short stories, presented here as an unabridged English audiobook running 2 hours and 51 minutes.
What kind of protagonist is Anna Fang?
Anna is presented as a pilot, adventurer, spy, and rebellious survivor whose courage is shaped by captivity, dangerous machines, and changing loyalties.
How does the audiobook handle different characters?
A retailer observation describes Barnaby Edwards using varied accents for people Anna encounters, with particular attention to differences in pronunciation. This is developing rather than definitive evidence about the full performance.
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