Vurt - Softcover

Noon, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330338811 ISBN 13: 9780330338813

Publisher: PAN BOOKS LTD (ENGLAND), 1994

Synopsis

Take a trip in a stranger`s head. Along rainshot streets with the stash riders, a posse of hip malcontents, hooked on the most powerful drug you can imagine... Vurt feathers... But as the Game Cat says, Be careful, be very careful. This ride is not for the weak...

Scribble isn`t listening. He has to find his lost love. A journey towards the ultimate, perhaps even mythical, Vurt Feather... Curious Yellow.

`Passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling` The Times

`Too beautiful for bikers, too harsh for hippies` New Stateman and Society

`Bold and accomplished... It screams out to be read` City Life

`Refreshing, disturbing and original` Independent

About this title

Review:

If you like challenging science fiction, then Jeff Noon is the author for you. Vurt, winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award, is a cyberpunk novel with a difference, a rollicking, dark, yet humorous examination of a future in which the boundaries between reality and virtual reality are as tenuous as the brush of a feather.

But no review can do Noon's writing justice: it's a phantasmagoric combination of the more imaginative science fiction masters, such as Phillip K. Dick, genres such as cyberpunk and pulp fiction, and drug culture.

If this tickles your fancy, you should definitely consider the sequel to Vurt, Pollen, or Noon's lighter and more accessible Automated Alice, a modern recasting of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

From the Inside Flap:

and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurt is passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: PAN BOOKS LTD (ENGLAND)
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0330338811
• ISBN 13: 9780330338813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352