Binding dark yellow cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dj now protected inside a cover; very slight creasing to head of spine. In a strange re-mixed future Manchester a cloud of pollen descends - a new strain, each tiny grain a murderer. Within days the streets of the city are overgrown with vicious blooms as the fiercest hay fever epidemic of all time takes hold. People are sneezing themselves to death and the pollen count is racing towards 2,000. A small percentage of the population are immune to the fever. two of them - shadow-cop Sibyl Jones and her wayward daughter Boda - are on separate paths into the dark place from where the pollen originates. What they find there will change their lives forever. The fate of Manchester depends upon them.

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Title: Pollen
Publisher: Ringpull, Manchester
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1898051119
ISBN 13: 9781898051114
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Cover: Joe Magee
Edition: First.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Book Type: Book

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, 327 pages, SIGNED by author on title page

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If you like challenging science fiction, then Jeff Noon is the author for you.

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.

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