How to get the new audiobook of Mortal Engines free!

Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Philip Reeve has announced to the world that actor Barnaby Edwards has redone the audio for Mortal Engines and that it's now available for download at Audible, Amazon's narrated book service!

You might know Barnday as a Dalek from Doctor Who?

The best news is that if you are a first time user of Audible you can download the novel for free!

That's right, if you've never read the book or want to listen to it on your commute, Barnaby Edwards has you covered!

If you're very new to the world of Mortal Engines, the first novel by Phillip Reeve is the place to start the tale:

'Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands.

Soon, London will feed.

In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage - and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.'

And so begins one of the greatest science fiction tales told.

A perfect book for Young Adults, but like Harry Potter, this book has an appeal to adults of all ages, if you need some encouragement, check out our book review.

When you sign up for Audible you actually get your first two ebooks for free! Which means you can also get the Predator's Gold sequel! Have at it by checking out the below add, because 'movement is life'!



Hester Shaw fan art - she's all killer and no filler

Wednesday, October 25, 2017
hester shaw fan art

Cherry_draws posted this great fan art sketch of Hester Shaw as they were inspired by a reading of Mortal Engines.

Some thing about that right eye is quite disturbing and really captures some of that 'intent' Hester has before she goes off and kills a few people...

Reeve announces 'Station Zero' as new Railhead novel

Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The cover and name of the third and final novel in Philip Reeve's Railhead series has been revealed as:

Station Zero


Here's the cover by artist Ian McQue:

station zero railhead cover art

Reeve said while praising McQue's work:

"'When I was reading science fiction novels as a young teenager one of the things which drew me to them was the covers, which tended to feature colossal multi-coloured spaceships and exotic planetscapes by artists like Chris Foss and Peter Jones. 

The modern-day equivalent of those illustration giants is Ian McQue, a concept artist for movies and computer games and also the creator of a wonderful body of personal work featuring shifty-looking characters, wild landscapes and rusty airborne boats (check out his Twitter or Instagram accounts)."

Station Zero will have a May 2018 release date. Order from Amazon.  

Shrike concept design as imagined in A Darkling Plain

Saturday, October 7, 2017
If you're ever read A Darkling Plain, you're appreciate this fan art from thatfigures of the Shrike:

sketch of shrike from A Darkling Plain

This picture represents one of the greatest endings to a novel I've ever had the joy of reading!

I also found this second sketch of the Shrike being discovered by the same artist:

shrike foun din a cave - darkling plain

David Buisan's Mortal Engines Spanish cover version artwork - Máquinas Mortales

Here's the incredible artwork by David Buisan that he designed for the Spanish language version of Mortal Engines:

spanish cover of mortal engines - Máquinas Mortales

Buisan's cover of Máquinas Mortales


Without the title getting in the way, one can truly appreciate that it really does convey what happens in the novel. Too often book covers have a cool picture that doesn't rally related to the words inside.

My only quibble would be I think Philip Reeve said in one of the chats he did on Discord that it was Hester's right eye that was disfigured...

Buisan has also designed the cover for Predator's Gold as El oro del depredador and Inventos Infernales, the third novel in the book series. We await the release of A Darkling Plain.







darkling plain spanish cover

Hera Hilmar imagined as Hester Shaw

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Here's a great photoshop effort of Hera Hilmar as Hester Shaw


hera hilmar imagined as hester shaw

We truly hope that Christain Rivers and Peter Jackson go all in on the disfigurement of Hester as it really is an outward embodiment of her inward psyche.

Found on Reddit!

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