Philip Reeve
@philipreeve1
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I write books, solo or with Sarah McIntyre ( @jabberworks ). Mortal Engines, Railhead, Pugs of the Frozen North, Adventuremice, the Utterly Dark trilogy…
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The trailer for my short film 'Gwenevere'. You can watch the whole thing here:
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230 likes in under an an hour, I have finally discovered the cute horse-based content Twitter desires.
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I never imagined this 20 years ago when I was trying to persuade publishers to read
#MortalEngines
.
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@acuparia
She was completely unbothered. I knelt down to take the first picture and it just came wandering over.
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@SterlingSimmon6
@CAwkward
They’re not technically wild, local farmers own them, but they’re allowed to live wild and graze on the commons.
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This Dartmoor tree is in danger of lapsing into self-parody.
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I watched
#MortalEngines
twice this week, and it’s brilliant. Christian Rivers has done a fantastic job - a huge, visually awesome action movie with perfect pace and a genuine emotional core. See it on the biggest screen you can. 1/1
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I’m not a huge Terry Pratchett fan, but just opened a book of his non-fiction at random (A Slip of the Keyboard) and this passage about Tolkien is rather fine...
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I found a bunch of doodles I did when I was reading ‘Piranesi’.
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So it turns out
#Dartmoor
ponies are Surprisingly Popular! You might want to check out the books I write with
@jabberworks
about a flying one.
#RolyPolyFlyingPony
#TheLegendOfKevin
#KevinsGreatEscape
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Night Flights - three short stories set in the world of Mortal Engines, with amazing illustrations by
@ianmcque
- should be in UK bookshops this week. (US edition in September.) Here's a bit of background.
#MortalEngines
@scholasticuk
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RIP Linda Manz, whose great & at least partly improvised voice over is one of my favourite things about one of my favourite films, ‘Days of Heaven’. (Interviews from ‘Terrance Malick: Rehearsing the Unexpected’ by Hintermann and Villa.)
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More Mortal Engines. (I think the official announcement is next week, but it looks like the news is out.)
@scholasticuk
@Scholastic
Cover art by
@ianmcque
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Spent a wet afternoon drawing tiny traction towns of variable quality on some bookplates, for anyone thinking of buying a ‘Mortal Engines’ book from an indie bookshop. DM me if you’d like one.
#SignForOurBookShops
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This person has the job I dreamed of when I was 12...
Meet the artist who built the amazing machines of
#MortalEngines
from scratch (and at 1/25th scale) using skills his own grandfather passed down to him.
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@PaintKatt
I was surprised when it came so close, the foals are pretty shy usually. (The big ones aren’t, but they’re just after sandwiches...)
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Mortal Engines was published 20 years ago today. Behold the snazzy new 20th Anniversary editions... (Original cover by David Frankland, current covers by
@ianmcque
.)
#MortalEngines20
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Look! Lovely new covers by
@ianmcque
for the Fever Crumb books (prequels to
#MortalEngines
). Available in the UK from 7th March.
@scholasticuk
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I warned you this would happen. (Via
@nakamuramartin
)
An 85-year-old primary school in Shanghai has been lifted off the ground — in its entirety — and relocated using new technology dubbed the "walking machine."
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At the request of Mr
@jasperfforde
,here’s the book-hungry city of Hay-Formerly-On-Wye hunting down a mobile library.
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That's a wrap for Sir Peter Jackson's 'Mortal Engines', as film heads into post-production
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The first and last books I read aloud to my son - Owl Babies when he was about 3 months, TKAM when he was 12 or 13 years. They both went down well & there were many, many others in between. Reading together is *great*.
#readingtogetherday
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Leonard Cohen's sleeve notes for his Greatest Hits album are little masterpieces. RIPLeonard
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Not now, vast, cool, unsympathetic intelligences regarding this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drawing plans against us.
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As the Mortal Engines movie is picking up some new viewers on Netflix, here’s
@ianmcque
’s thread of some of the brilliant concept designs he did for it.
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tfw a snow-white horse steps out of the forest and obviously expects you to follow it on a mystical quest but you have to get home because tonight is bins.
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Looking back through my Instagram posts and found a nice one of the mediæval village at Hound Tor, from last summer. (Needs a click.)
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The temperature has risen to a balmy -1 here on Dartmoor.
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Lockdown 2 will scupper plans to do a mini village panto on video and I am sad because the Socially Distanced Pantomime Cow gag is the best thing I’ve come up with all year.
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I’ve set up a separate Instagram account for my drawings at
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Cornwall yesterday. (Spring is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.)
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Happy publication day to MEEEE! ‘Utterly Dark & the Tides of Time’ is out today, my third story about the eccentric inhabitants of Wildsea Island and their kerfuffles with ancient magic and Regency wrong ‘uns.
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Me and my mum on the No.49 to Southwick. I don't look as happy as someone who's got the top front seat on a double-decker should.
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If something or other this week inspires you to start reading the
#MortalEngines
books & you want to know what order they come in... (Illustration by David Wyatt.)
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Well, this is a nice surprise!
Station Zero has been longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 - congratulations
@philipreeve1
!
@OxUniPress
#CKG19
#BestChildrensBooks
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Probably the last teeny traction town for a while - this one’s called Trundle.
#MortalEngines
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I started rereading The Lord of the Rings and thought I’d do some blogs about it. Here’s the first one.
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Also coming in September: Thunder City, a new adventure set in the world of Mortal Engines, published bu
@scholasticuk
.
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A few more details about my new novel 'Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep', coming in September from
@DFB_storyhouse
Cover art by
@paddydonnelly
Edited by
@LizJCross
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*Me, bursting into John Kay’s shop* ‘I’d like a short back and sides, a tiny portrait, and a scathing subtweet, please.’
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Clearing out some cupboards and I just found my very early illustration of Shrike (from when Mortal Engines was much more steampunky).
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'Based on the novels by Philip Reeves' 🙄
BBC News - Peter Jackson's latest fantasy film Mortal Engines storms into cinemas
@philipreeve1
@mortal_engines
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Looked through some old photo albums today. It turns out I spent most of 1966 in a washing up bowl.
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In case you missed it earlier, some of my favourite ever Mortal Engines things -
@ianmcque
’s stunning early concept paintings from da moovie.
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I'm going to be away from Twitter for a bit, but before I go, here’s a quick thread about my OTHER science fantasy series, the
#Railhead
trilogy.
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