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Jeff Noon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Pan; 4 edition (7 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330338811
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330338813
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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If you like literary 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.

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Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, this is a brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from the celebrated pioneer of urban fantasy.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Future (remixed) 8 Oct 2003
Format:Paperback
The first of Noon's books. Take a trip into the twisted world of future Manchester, a world where everything we know around us has just warped that little bit more as time has progressed. People taking trips using brightly coloured feathers, the police force sponsored by the worldwide burger chain, DJs projecting music via their mind into nightclubs, the mix of humanity and technology. Some where in the middle of all this you are introduced to the plight of Scribble and his friends, on a quest to find his sister after a trip into a feather known as Curious Yellow goes wrong.

Jeff Noon manages to conjure up a world familar yet warped just beyond our recognition, his writing style is unique, taking life as we know it and projecting just a little into the future. I've never read a book which has such amazing pace to it. As you read further and further it just gets more exciting with every page as you find yourself staying up until the early hours to find out what happens next as Vurtual Manchester draws you in. As vivid as a comic book, you'll never experience anything like this. Those well versed in club culture and technology will find this book a particular joy. The future vision of Gibson mixed with the fantasy of Alice In Wonderland.

Read this, then read everything else he has done, no weak links in his chain.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Noon draws a thin line between hope and despair then grabs you by the hand and runs along it at break neck speed. Vurt is the ultimate trip, a world where you can go to escape but somewhere you may never escape from. Noon has created his own virtual reality in this book, based in Manchester the story revolves around a handful of strong dead-beat anti-heroes. Vurt itself is a world of dreams you enter using vurt feathers, the parallels between virtual reality and drug use are so close they often merge at points to become vurtually indistinguishable.

Scribble the main character is searching for his sister, who has become lost in the vurt world. Helped and hindered by his friends the stash riders, a group of social misfits who jump from one bad trip to the next. To reach his sister he needs to find a meta-feather, curious yellow. Once he has the feather he can exchange his sister for the vurt alien he bought back from the trip where he lost her. Unfortunately in his quest for the feather he loses the alien and that's just the start of his problems!

This is one of the most beautifully crafted stories you are likely to read, to label it as a cyber-punk novel is accurate but this must not deter you if Sci-Fi is not your thing. As a fast paced surreal adventure the story often leaves you breathless, and sometimes so close to tears it hurts. If your looking for a great Sci-Fi book or something fresh and different read this, you won't be disappointed.

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I'd heard about this book from friends. I saw the play at The Contact Theatre, Manchester. This awsome production, the "Theatre Reximx", scripted by Noon himself was truly inspiring and was the last straw in getting me to read the book.

The book is truly unputdownable and explores drugs, rave culture, loyalty, science fiction, fantasy, sexuality and political control on a head rushing ride of a story that questions the boundaries of reality.

Read the book, ride in the stash van, avoid the robocops.

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Mind blowing
This is an outstanding first novel by Jeff Noon not available to buy in bookshops as no longer in print. Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. GILL
I hate to say it but......
Nauseating is probably the best way to describe this book, the more I read the less I enjoyed. For me the language used just ruined the book, that and the freaky parts of the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Richard Hodgson
Rare book
Believe it or not, but it's a really rare book in Russia. The only way to get it is from Amazon.
Published 6 months ago by Alex Korolev
Disturbing and Complicated
I couldn't get into this one. I've not really read anything like this before and I think it was just a bit too far 'out there' for me. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Stepping Out of the Page
Vurtuoso first attempt...
[Please don't vote this down because you disagree with it - consider whether the review is useful to some people as prospective readers. Read more
Published 21 months ago by E. Granter
This book changed me
I read this book many years ago and it still sticks with me to this day. I really do mean it when I say that this book changed me... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2008 by Lee Doyle
Vurtual feathers
Vurt is an odd beast. I found it hard to start with, but soon the world had sucked me in. In futuristic Manchester those looking for hallucinogenic experiences suck on feathers to... Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2007 by Mikko Saari
So much potential, but it didn't quite do it for me
The first half of this book absolutely blew me away, I thought it was one of the most incredible things I'd ever read, I got through it in a couple hours and was hungry for more. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2007 by Vrinda Pendred
Possibly life changing?
I am a student, and we were mucking about in the libary at lunch one wet break - and i saw this book in the shelf and picked it out due to the versions random colour scheme. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2006 by W. King
Vurtual Reality
Jeff Noon’s debut novel is a startling mix of science fiction and fantasy, essentially taking the tropes of cyberpunk SF and transforming them into something far stranger. Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2005 by Jane Aland
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