Philip Reeve

“Boo-Boo Pennyroyal did not like her male and female slaves to mingle. In the operas that she adored, young people brought together…

— Philip Reeve

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple…

— Philip Reeve

“The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather…

— Philip Reeve

As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the…

— Philip Reeve

“Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and…

— Philip Reeve

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

— Philip Reeve

Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession -…

— Philip Reeve

“High on its flanks is a complex of caves where the kings and heroes of the Mountain Kingdoms have been laid to…

— Philip Reeve

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

— Philip Reeve

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because,…

— Philip Reeve

“I am forever being captured these days. It isn't like me at all. You must think me such a silly princess.”

— Philip Reeve

“If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls,…

— Philip Reeve

I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some…

— Philip Reeve

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't…

— Philip Reeve

“Uncle knows best. -All the Lost Boys”

— Philip Reeve

“In the old days, I'd never given a thought to the future, and not much to the past. I'd lived simply in…

— Philip Reeve

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,…

— Philip Reeve

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'…

— Philip Reeve

“And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud,…

— Philip Reeve

“I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be…

— Philip Reeve

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

— Philip Reeve

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out…

— Philip Reeve

“Her face was very beautiful, he thought. He hadn't been sure before, but he was now. The mind that lived behind it…

— Philip Reeve

“The small lives of women don't make for good stories. That's why there were no girls in the stories Myrddin told, unless…

— Philip Reeve

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…

— Philip Reeve