About the book: 2003 / Many centuries after the fantastic Sixty Minute War, the Age of Movement began. Cities tore themselves out of the ground and stood on wheels. The world lives according to the laws of municipal Darwinism: cities circle around the Hunting Lands and devour each other. And when loot becomes scarce, the Moving Metropolis of London resorts to the monstrous weapons of the Ancients. With its help, he intends to destroy the cities of the Anti-Movement League, and then get to Mars, the Sun and the stars. The heroes of the novel, Tom and Esther, finding themselves in the Open Territory, end up either on a pirate platform, then in the Air Harbor, or on the Shield Wall, but both - each for their own reason - strive to return aboard London.