Lauren Beukes has called this Arthur C. Clarke Award winning novel `An intense, blistering story'. It's a brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from a literary pioneer.
Jeff Noon was born in Manchester in 1957. He was trained in the
visual arts, and was musically active
on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre.
His first novel, Vurt, was published in 1993 and went on to win the
Arthur C. Clarke Award. His other books include Automated Alice,
Pixel Juice, Needle in the Groove and Falling out of Cars. His
plays include Woundings, The Modernists and Dead Code.
‘Vurt was an SF novel that was really fresh and peculiar at a time
when we were constantly being told that lots of SF novels were
really fresh and peculiar, but they often weren’t' William
Gibson
‘An intense, blistering story about the price of knowledge, full of
dreaminess and borderlands and razor blades… I know what Vurt did
to me when I first read it and how that influence lingers in the
source code of everything I write' Lauren Beukes
‘These books, the best books, discover the essential human notes of
their times, and they ring so strongly down the decades that we
remember them still' Warren Ellis
‘Vurt was a better Philip K. Dick novel than most of Dick’s own
books. Like Neuromancer, Vurt felt utterly of its time and a little
ahead of it, like early mash-up singles' Richard Kadrey
‘It was subversive, transgressive. It got under your skin like
Cronenberg, or like Poppy Brite. But you don’t need to know more.
You just need to look at my wide eyes as I hand you the book. You
just need to take the book. “You just have to read it"' Chuck
Wendig
‘Vurt is a gripping piece of speculative fiction . . . It deserves
to be far more famous' Guardian
‘A startling first novel. It’s a hard-edged book with moments of
pure poetry. It’s refreshing, disturbing and original'
Independent
‘Passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling' The Times
‘The streetwise cynicism of Kurt Vonnegut at his best . . . Too
beautiful for bikers, too harsh for hippies' New Statesman &
Society
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