American Fever: A Tale of Romance & Pestilence

REVIEWS

***Kirkus* Review of *American Fever***

“A modern take on Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year ... The novel is well researched and notable for pointing out what we know, or perhaps more importantly don’t know, about influenza ... perfectly captures the unique tone often struck by even the most professional bloggers ... intimate slices of life amid the horror, inspirational impressions of perseverance and survival in a time of great crisis.”

Avian Flu Diary: 'It Gives You Fever'

"Amid blogging the sound and fury of this past week’s controversial bird flu news, I’ve spent a number of good hours enjoying a freshly minted copy of Peter Christian Hall’s pandemic novel American Fever ... The web version remains online (edited, tightened up, and better than ever) which you can access for free, but now there is an e-book, and a printed version you can purchase ... For my part I’ll say that I thoroughly enjoyed the novel, and actually learned (and in some cases re-learned) a few things about flu in the process. I do hope that Peter’s dark vision of what happens to outspoken flu bloggers during an H5N1 pandemic never comes to pass. I keep repeating to myself . . . It’s only fiction . . .

Bottom line: American Fever – catch it, before it catches you. — Mike Coston

TeleRead Review by Court Merrigan

"By far the best stab at the future of the novel I've seen ... Hall taps into a deep literary vein of paranoia ... This novel-as-blog soon had me wiping down every surface in reach with disinfectant ... You're missing something if you miss American Fever ... Someday when we’re reminiscing fondly on the dawn of e-books, American Fever may very well occupy pride of place among the original innovators"

The Devil's Accountant

"A very clever work of fiction ... Hall is a keen social observer.

"He is perhaps the first to couch activism, education and fiction so closely together. It may not sell as well as Uncle Tom's Cabin, but the potential for widespread discussion and increased awareness are implicit. Anyone curious about the future of literature might want to watch Hall's book manifest ... You'll find yourself clicking next page after next page."

Religion Dispatches: Review by Michael A. Elliott

"An online novel about a flu pandemic blurs the boundaries between real “flu-blogging” and the dystopic world of its blogger protagonist. And it exposes the cultural anxiety, both religious and secular, that disease unleashes."