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".

菲利普·瑞弗（Philip Reeve）

1966年出生于英国的布莱顿，紧邻伦敦的一个美丽的海滨城市。那里冬天寒冷得像童话世界，夏天美得像天堂。

他先后在剑桥艺术和技术学院以及布赖顿理工学院学习插图。他在书店工作多年，因为作恐怖历史小说的插图而略有名气。没人相信他从五岁就开始写作，而立之年才大器晚成，终于凭青少年文学处女作《致命引擎》（Mortal Engines）一书，征服了挑剔的英国编辑和读者，走红英伦。