SFF Author: Philip Reeve

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Fever Crumb: Prequel to the fantastic Hungry City Chronicles

Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve Fever Crumb is a prequel of sorts to Philip Reeve’s fantastic HUNGRY CITY CHRONICLES, which started with Mortal Engines. I say “of sorts” in that it’s set in the prehistory of the HUNGRY CITY CHRONICLES world, but far back enough in time that Fever Crumb doesn’t act as a direct […]

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A Web of Air: Reeve manages the perfect balance

A Web of Air by Philip Reeve You Can’t Murder the Truth! The second of the prequel trilogy to Philip Reeve’s wonderful Hungry Cities series continues Reeve’s imaginative, exhilarating, unpredictable story of life in a post-apocalyptic world where seagulls have rudimentary communication skills, people live in houses that can be hoisted up and down hillsides, […]

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Night Flights: A brief but welcome return to the world of MORTAL ENGINES

Night Flights by Philip Reeve Night Flights (2018) by Philip Reeve is a collection of three short stories set in the world of the MORTAL ENGINES QUARTET (also known as the HUNGRY CITY CHRONICLES), and focuses on the character of Anna Fang, a fearless aviatrix. Its timing seemed to be connected to the release of […]

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Here Lies Arthur: Philip Reeve is better than this

Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve Here Lies Arthur is a YA deconstruction/demystifying of the King Arthur legend. And a pretty thorough demystifying at that. Philip Reeve doesn’t simply knock Arthur down a peg or two from chivalric magic-sword-wielding king of the Round Table, say, by making him simply a Roman general or an English […]

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Railhead: Imaginative and entertaining from beginning to end

Railhead by Philip Reeve If the idea of a heist aboard a sentient train traveling at faster-than-light speeds appeals to you; if said heist involves assumed identities, the theft of a very old and valuable artifact, and a criminal thumbing his nose at a family-run corporation/empire; if you like believable romance and honest-to-goodness fun, then […]

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Black Light Express: Does what every good sequel should

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Black Light Express by Philip Reeve Black Light Express (2017) is Philip Reeve’s just-as-good-as-the-first-book follow up to Railhead, continuing the exhilarating romp while expanding the universe and its inhabitants, as well as digging a bit more deeply into the hidden history of the created world and offering up some […]

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Station Zero: A superb conclusion to an excellent YA trilogy

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Station Zero by Philip Reeve With Station Zero (2019), Philip Reeve brings to an end the RAILHEAD trilogy begun with Railhead and Black Light Express, and if it’s not a perfect conclusion, it’s pretty darn close, leaving you at the end with a sense of satisfying, even gratifying, resolution […]

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