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The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first. Soon people are sneezing and dying all over Manchester. Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy - but even a happy death can be a murder. As exotic blooms begin to flower all over the city, the pollen count is racing towards 2000 and Sybil is running out of time. `Britain's first star of cyberpunk' Guardian, `Great Fun. Read it' Mail on Sunday, `As weird as it is wonderful' The Times, `Surprising in its subtlety and deftness of characterization' The Times, `A genuinely new flavour . . . the first of the psychedelic cyberfantasists' Time Out, `Intriguingly textured, reliably witty and inventive, Noon's whirling purposeful fantasy packs a full whallop' Kirkus, `The same imaginative flair and gift for wildly mixed imagery that enlivened Vurt' Publishers Weekly
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If you like challenging science fiction, then Jeff Noon is the author for you.
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Pollen is the sequel to Vurt (winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award), and both are concerned with a world in which dreams, drug-induced hallucination, and reality become completely intermingled. In this volume, the dream world unleashes a pollen that threatens to cause people in the real world to sneeze to death.
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 you would like a more accessible approach to Jeff Noon's richly imagined world, I recommend Automated Alice, a modern recasting of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
The bestselling author of Vurt spins another audaciously inventive tales of reality gone soft and dreams become real. As an enormous cloud of pollen descends upon a city, people begin to literally sneeze themselves to death. When a cop, one of the few who is immune, sets out to find the source of the plague, what she discovers will forever alter the ancient relationship between people and the myths they create to make sense of the world.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1509822658
- ISBN 13 9781509822652
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages370
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