Fever Crumb

Fever Crumb

Author	Philip Reeve
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Fever Crumb Series
Genre	Steampunk
Publisher	Scholastic Corporation
Publication date	5 May 2009
Media type	Print (Hardback, Paperback)
ISBN	978-1-4071-0242-9
OCLC	310156545
Preceded by	A Darkling Plain
Followed by	A Web of Air

Fever Crumb is a young adult post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Philip Reeve, published in 2009. Sequels called A Web of Air (2010) and Scrivener's Moon (2011) follow. The books of the Fever Crumb Series are prequels to the Mortal Engines Quartet series of novels by the same author.

Awards and recognition

• 2010 Shortlist for the Carnegie Medal
• 2011 American Library Association Notable Children's Book for Older Readers

In popular culture

At a critical juncture in The Dead (2010), the second novel in Charlie Higson's post-apocalyptic series The Enemy, Chris Marker "retreats to the safety of stories". While his surviving classmates argued about whether to seek safer refuge 25 miles away, in London, or in the countryside, "He was reading a science-fiction adventure called Fever Crumb, set in London hundreds of years in the future. He found that reassuring."

References

1. Philip Reeve, Scholastic Ltd.
2. Book review, The Independent
3. Book Review, Fantastic Fiction