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A gritty, inventive journey through a decaying future city, guided by a fiercely logical mind learning how to feel. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Fever Crumb (Fever Crumb #1).
- gritty
- industrial
- mysterious
- eerie
- atmospheric
- 01
Predator's Gold (The Hungry City Chronicles)
Philip Reeve
A breathless, frostbitten chase across a frozen wasteland where survival means trusting the untrustworthy.
- 02
Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles)
Philip Reeve
A breathless, rust-coated chase across a desolate world where cities devour each other to survive.
- 03
Un Lun Dun
Mieville, China · 2007
A delightfully weird, trope-smashing portal fantasy where the sidekick takes charge in a wonderland of discarded junk.
- 04
Shade's children
Garth Nix · 1997
A relentless, shadow-drenched fight for survival in a bleak world where growing up is a literal death sentence.
- 05
King Rat
China Miéville · 1999
A grimy, bass-thumping descent into a hallucinatory London where ancient urban legends bleed into the underground club scene.
- 06
The Search for WondLa
Tony DiTerlizzi
A visually stunning, wonder-filled quest across a bizarre alien landscape in search of home and humanity.
- 07
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross · 2008
A cheeky, high-octane romp through a solar system where humanity is dead but their bureaucratic and capitalist hangovers are alive and well.
- 08
Newt's emerald
Garth Nix
A sparkling Regency romp where corsets and societal rules are traded for magical mischief and a fake mustache.
- 09
The lost thing
Shaun Tan
A quietly surreal and beautifully illustrated reminder to notice the strange, wonderful things hidden in a busy, apathetic world.
- 10
A Tale of Time City
Diana Wynne Jones
A dizzying, wildly inventive romp through a decaying utopia where clever children must untangle the threads of history.
- 11
The drowned cities
Paolo Bacigalupi
A brutal, swamp-drenched descent into a flooded future where loyalty is the only currency left.
- 12
Permutation City
Greg Egan
A dizzying plunge into the deep end of hard science fiction that will leave you questioning the fundamental nature of your own consciousness.
