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Philip Reeve
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| Born | 1966 Brighton, England |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | English |
| Writing period | 2001— |
| Genres | Science Fiction |
| Debut works | Mortal Engines |
| Website | http://www.philipreeve.co.uk |
Philip Reeve (b. 1966 in Brighton) is a bestselling British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and his son Samuel.
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Before becoming an illustrator he worked at a bookshop for several years. He provided cartoons for many books including those in the Horrible Histories and the Murderous Maths series and wrote the Buster Bayliss series of books for young readers, which currently includes Night of the Living Veg, The Big Freeze, Day of the Hamster, and Custardfinger. His first book for older readers was the bestselling Mortal Engines which won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award. Mortal 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 inhabited by moving cities. He is also the author of a Dead Famous book, Horatio Nelson and his victory
- Night of the Living Veg (2002)
- The Big Freeze (2002)
- Day of the Hamster (2002)
- Custardfinger (2003)
- Mortal Engines (2001)
- Predator's Gold (2003)
- Infernal Devices (2005)
- A Darkling Plain (2006)
- Urgum the Axeman (2006) (with Kjartan Poskitt author) (Reeve illustrated)
- Here Lies Arthur (2007)
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| Novels: | Mortal Engines · Predator's Gold · Infernal Devices · A Darkling Plain |
| Characters: | Tom Natsworthy · Hester Shaw · Anna Fang · Shrike · Nimrod Pennyroyal · Wren Natsworthy · Oenone Zero · Theo Ngoni · Thaddeus Valentine · Magnus Crome |
| Organisations: | Anti-Traction League · Green Storm · Traction City · Traktionstadtsgesellschaft |
| Other: | Anchorage-in-Vineland · Jenny Haniver · Municipal Darwinism · Orbital Defence Initiative · Sixty Minute War · Stalkers |