Flawless victory

Just this afternoon I finished "A Darkling Plain," the last novel in Philip Reeve's "Hungry City Chronicles," and I was very nearly moved to tears by the thought that it was the last adventure I would be allowed in his wondrous and masterfully-conceived world. I'll say what I said at the end of "Infernal Devices"-- if your adventurous spirit is at all stirred by the thought of a world millenia beyond our own, where cities roam the once-civilized plains of our past, where airships cloud the sky and danger and valiant deeds are everywhere, you can do no better than to pick up Philip Reeve's "Mortal Engines" and begin your journey. The depth of his characters bests J.K. Rowling by a mile, and if that lady has even the faintest inkling of how to weave the complex narrative that Reeve does I would be well surprised.

It's stories like Reeve's that make me proud to write adventure fiction.