- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (1 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385408595
- ISBN-13: 978-0385408592
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 823,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
"In the first shop they bought a packet of dogseed, because Doreen had always wanted to grow her own dog". Here we go again with Jeff Noon's own highly idiosyncratic approach to life, technology, England and literature. After four novels - Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice and Nymphomation- Noon has now assembled over 50 fragmentary stories (although the word "story" does not give anything like an accurate representation of these charged pieces of imaginative mayhem) that skip around from adverts to fairy tales, from weirdly rough-cut poetry to highly unorthodox board games. "For my seventh birthday I asked my dad to steal us a bike" asks the splendidly unsentimental narrator of Pixel Face. "I can't locate that shit", replies the hassled father, "How about a new computer?" "I tell him I've got two already", replies the charming son, "and if he doesn't deliver the bike, I'm telling the cops about him". All you need to know about the mores and morality of the future is in this book. --Nick Wroe
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A selection of 50 stories from Jeff Noon's imagination, each one strange, telling, disturbing or just weird. From the breakdown zones of the mediasphere and the margins of dance culture, Noon samples the image mix. Subjects include product recalls, adverts for mad gadgets, and urban fairytales.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
50 short stories, each one revealing a new provocative or introspective idea. Noon's imagination is clearly quite incredible - I have never read a book with so many individual ideas. Noon also uses language in an entirely different way, the rhythm of his writing and the thoughts he conveys through his words are very powerful - the story might take only two minutes to read but it leaves you pondering the meaning or the moral. Jeff Noon has written a book which is incredible, an "off switch" for humans, swarming adverts, and the story of a young pimp who grows up. This is a great gift for someone 14+ who is interested in the human mind, and in culture and change.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jeff Noon is one of the most innovative and clever authors of modern science fiction. He subverts and reinvents the conventions of the genre, and injects a lot of urban weirdness. Pixel Juice is his first and so far only collection of short stories, and he's excelled. Almost every one of these 50 stories (it's a lot, but they're mostly very short) has one or more bizarre ideas at its core, and it's a pleasure discovering the contents of Jeff Noon's mind. Noon veers between simple narrative, anecdote, limerick sequences, newspaper article, cybernetic dog-slang, haiku, rap, and any number of other styles. He's impossible to pin down, and you wouldn't want to. Ideas like the vurt feather or the domino lottery have been expanded to entire books, but here's all the ephemera that wouldn't fill a novel, but work brilliantly in just a story. Pixel Juice is excellent.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you can read better its only a dream. Beautifully constructed narratives that open your mind to the stories themselves. Details that are portrayed so perfectly in a way that only Jeff Noon has mastered. Fairy tales of the future.
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A true literary treat!
This book has probably been one of the biggest influences on my own writing style--and it's not hard to see why. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2010 by H. Coverley
Nicely integrated
A book of short stories fitting nicely in a genre of strange science fiction. The stories flow very nicely and there are common threads throughout the book without feeling forced. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2010 by aceadrian
Pixel Juice by Jeff Noon
Very good value present for my daughter, which arrived in plenty of time to gift wrap for Christmas. Reliable service.
Published on 19 Jan 2010 by JEC HILLS
....and now for Something Completely Different....
There's no denying, "Pixel Juice" is a complete trip of a read, from start to finish. Whether that's your sort of thing or not is another matter. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2005 by Trelloskilos
I love Jeff
Having read Jeff's other titles including Automated Alice, I didn't think there was much more that this man could do. Pixel Juice definitely disproved that. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2004 by "bearbear1188"
Dont read this if you get easily jelous....
This guy just makes you seethe with envy at how many ideas he seems to spew onto the page!! This is a collection of short stories which all follow a definite and defined style, but... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2004 by Nathan Pierce
Good Vurtual Fun
Any book this size that has 50 short stories contained within it shouldhave a few duds, but this is simply not the case. Read more
Published on 20 April 2004 by Richard Kelly
Dip into the future...
Rarely have I found an author who has excited me enough to go hunt down all of his works. I seem to find myself returning to this more often than the others, mainly due to its nice... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2003 by Simon J. Whight
A reader from Tokyo
A return to the Jeff Noon that first brought us "Vurt". A collection of short stories. Jeff Noon has a very distinctive writing style for the genre - and in the... Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2000
A reader from Tokyo
A return to the Jeff Noon that first brought us "Vurt". A collection of short stories. Jeff Noon has a very distinctive writing style for the genre - and in the... Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2000
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