2020, he acknowledged the film's shortcomings, but thoughts of the filmmakers liking the books led him to welcome the US-New Zealand two-hour film co-production as the best "you could hope for [in your lifetime]". On November 18, 2020, upon asked whether Mortal Engines would be rebooted for the television screens, he responded that, while that would be nice, it seemed unlikely. Writing methods Reeve claims not to be a methodical writer. He plans nothing at all, usually starting with an opening image, a closing image, and a few vague notions for the things that happen in between. This leads to thousands of words of rough draft material being abandoned – even entire novels, such as with Fever Crumb and Mortal Engines. However, he takes ideas from these abandoned drafts to build the final version. It usually takes him a year to move a novel from first idea to publication – six months actively writing it, the rest editing and thinking. Works Young adult novels Mortal Engines Universe Mortal Engines Quartet, called Hungry City Chronicles in the United States: Mortal Engines (2001) Predator's Gold (2003) Infernal Devices (2005) A Darkling Plain (2006) Traction City (World Book Day, 2011), a novella, rewritten in "Traction City Blues" short story The Traction Codex: An Historian's Guide to the Era of Predator Cities (2012), with Jeremy Levett, guide Night Flights: A Mortal Engines Collection (2018), illustrated by Ian McQue, prequel, collection of 3 short stories: "Frozen Heart", "Traction City Blues", "Teeth of the Sea" The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines (2018), with Jeremy Levett, guide Fever Crumb series, prequel: Fever Crumb (2009) A Web of Air (2010) Scrivener's Moon (2011) Larklight trilogy (illustrated by David Wyatt) Larklight (2006) Starcross (2007) Mothstorm (2008) Railhead series Railhead (2015) Black Light Express (2016) Station Zero (2018) Stand-alones Here Lies Arthur (2007) No Such Thing As Dragons (2009) Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep (Sept 2021) Short stories "Doctor Who: The Roots of Evil" (2013), No. 4 from Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts series Children's short stories "The Exeter Riddles" (2013) Children's books Buster Bayliss series: Night of the Living Veg (2002) The Big Freeze (2002) Day of the Hamster (2002) Custardfinger! (2003) Goblins series (page decorations by Dave Semple) Goblins (2012) Goblins vs Dwarves (2013) Goblin Quest (2014) Reeve & McIntyre Production series, published in the US as A Not-So-Impossible Tale (written together with, and illustrated