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Philip Reeve illustrated by David Wyatt
Starcross
Bloomsbury (347 pages) 9780747589136
The drawings of David Wyatt are a fully integrated element of the storytelling in this sequel to Larklight. The setting is a Victorian-type age but with extraordinary space travel and complex machinery of all kinds. It is all non-stop action, witty invention, crazy opposites clashing, and has a habit of bursting into songs of the popular music-hall persuasion. Everything is brim-full with a wonderful sense of being seriously ridiculous, of melodrama and of dangers galore around every planet and in every domestic utensil. There are dryly off-beat remarks and a roundabout approach to all manner of matter and incidents. Phenomenally grand, but totally unpretentious, knockabout fun.