From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve der various group names, among them The Charles Atlas
Sisters.
He provided cartoons for many books including those
in the Horrible Histories and the Murderous Maths series and
wrote the Buster Bayliss series series of books for young
readers, which currently includes Night of the Living Veg,
The Big Freeze, Day of the Hamster, and Custardfinger. He is
also the author and illustrator of a Dead Famous book, Ho-
ratio Nelson and His Victory.
His first book for older readers was Mortal Engines
which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award
and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award. Mor-
tal Engines is the first book in the Mortal Engines Quartet
series, which also includes Reeve’s Predator’s Gold, Infernal
Devices and A Darkling Plain. The books are about the lives
of two young adventurers, Tom Natsworthy and Hester
Shaw, who live in a lawless post-apocalyptic world inhab-
ited by moving cities.
Mortal Engines took Reeve over a decade to write. He
started coming up with ideas for the book between 1989
and 1990, and it was first published in 2001. This was be-
cause he was working at it part time, between illustra-
tion jobs. After it was published, however, he cut down
Born 1966
on his illustration work and devoted his more of his time
Brighton, England
to writing, as he now knew he could fully complete a pro-
Occupation Novelist ject.[1]
Nationality English His 2007 novel, Here Lies Arthur, an alternative version
of the Arthurian legend, was awarded the Carnegie
Period 2001— Medal. The first novel of his steampunk series set in outer
Genres Science Fiction space, Larklight, was under development as a film direct-
ed by Indian director Shekhar Kapur, but the director is
Notable work(s) Mortal Engines Quartet no longer attached. Reeve himself professes that, when
www.philip-reeve.com planning out stories for his novels, "I see it as a film that
I run in my head, and I just keep running alternative ver-
Philip Reeve (born 1966 in Brighton) is a British author sions of it until I come up with a cut I like.[2] The future
and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his of the film is in the new hands of Swedish director Tomas
wife Sarah and their son Samuel. Alfredson.[3]
Biography Writing methods
Reeve studied illustration, first at Cambridgeshire Col- Reeve claims not to be a methodical writer. He does not
lege of Arts and Technology (CCAT - now Anglia Ruskin plan anything at all, usually starting with an opening im-
University), where he contributed a comic strip to the age, a closing image, and a few vague notions for the
Student Union magazine, and later at Brighton Polytech- things that happen in between. This leads to thousands
nic (now the University of Brighton). Before becoming of words of rough draft material being abandoned - even
a professional illustrator he worked at a bookshop in entire novels, such as with Fever Crumb and Mortal Engines.
Brighton for several years. During his student years and He does, however take ideas from these abandoned drafts
for a few years afterwards he wrote for and performed in to build the final version. It usually takes him a year to
comedy sketch shows with a variety of collaborators un- get a novel from first idea to publication, six months of
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Reeve
which are spent actively writing it. The rest of the time is Journal. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/
spent on editing and thinking.[4][5] article/CA6386685.html. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
[3] White, James (2010-10-06). "Tomas Alfredson
Bibliography Catches The Larklight: Directing the adventure
novel adaptation EmpireOnline.com". Empire
Online. http://www.empireonline.com/news/
Buster Bayliss series feed.asp?NID=29128. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
• Night of the Living Veg (2002) [4] Reilly, Fiachra. "Questions and Answers with Philip
• The Big Freeze (2002) Reeve - Hortorian.com". http://hortorian.com/
• Day of the Hamster (2002) 2010/09/questions-and-answers-with-philip-
• Custardfinger! (2003) reeve/. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
[5] Jones, Rhys. "An Interview with Philip Reeve-
Mortal Engines Quartet ThirstforFiction.com".
(Marketed as "The Hungry City Chronicles" in the U.S.) http://www.thirstforfiction.com/authors/philip-
• Mortal Engines (2001) reeve/an-interview-with-philip-reeve. Retrieved
• Predator’s Gold (2003) 30 October 2010.
• Infernal Devices (2005)
• A Darkling Plain (2006)
• Traction City (World Book Day novella) (2011)
References
Henry Keazor, "Mortal Engines" und "Infernal Devices":
Fever Crumb Series Architektur- und Technologie-Nostalgie bei Philip
Reeve", in: Techniknostalgie und Retrotechnologie, ed.
• Fever Crumb (2009)
by Andreas Böhn and Kurt Möser, Karlsruhe 2010, p. 129
• A Web of Air (2010)
- 147 (http://uvka.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/shop/prod-
• Scrivener’s Moon (2011)
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Retrotechnologie--Band-2-.html/XTCsid/
Larklight trilogy ef3be60e521d8883272cc1234a737282)
• Larklight (2006)
• Starcross (2007)
• Mothstorm (2008) External links
• Philip Reeve’s homepage
Other novels • Philip Reeve’s blog
• Horatio Nelson and His Victory (2003) • Mortal Engines Site (requires Flash and Javascript)
• Here Lies Arthur (2007) • Philip Reeve biography
• No Such Thing As Dragons (2009) • Philip Reeve interview
• Isaac Newton and His Apple(1999) • Questions and Answers with Philip Reeve
• Philip Reeve at the Internet Speculative Fiction
Books as illustrator Database
• Pantsacadabra! (2006) (with Kjartan Poskitt) Persondata
• Urgum the Axeman (2006) (with Kjartan Poskitt) Name Reeve, Philip
• Murderous Maths (series) (with Kjartan Poskitt) Alternative names
• Awful Art (1997) (with Michael Cox)
Short description
• No Such Thing As Dragons (2009) (own book)
Date of birth 1966
Footnotes Place of birth Brighton, England
Date of death
[1] Reilly, Fiachra. "Questions and Answers with Philip
Reeve - Hortorian.com". http://hortorian.com/ Place of death
2010/09/questions-and-answers-with-philip-
reeve/. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
[2] Margolis, Rick (2006-01-11). "Brits in Space: In
Philip Reeve’s latest novel, the British empire
stretches to Saturn and beyond". School Library
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