菲利普·瑞弗（Philip Reeve）

1966年齣生於英國的布萊頓，緊鄰倫敦的一個美麗的海濱城市。那裏鼕天寒冷得像童話世界，夏天美得像天堂。

他先後在劍橋藝術和技術學院以及布賴頓理工學院學習插圖。他在書店工作多年，因為作恐怖曆史小說的插圖而略有名氣。沒人相信他從五歲就開始寫作，而立之年纔大器晚成，終於憑青少年文學處女作《緻命引擎》（Mortal Engines）一書，徵服瞭挑剔的英國編輯和讀者，走紅英倫。

This is an extraordinary fiction from a brilliant author...It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going back...Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities slinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London...In "A Darkling Plain", Philip Reeve brilliantly completes the breath-taking adventures that began with "Mortal Engines".