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Vurt (Hardcover)

by Jeff Noon (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 285 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (26 April 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1898051283
  • ISBN-13: 978-1898051282
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,106,172 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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A dark tale of England a few years from now. An England like the England of today but different. Two characters who are hooked on Vurt Feathers - the most powerful drug you can imagine. It lets them escape the rain-washed streets, the holographic cops, the overflowing bottle banks, the virtual reality of Coronation Street.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Future (remixed), 8 Oct 2003
By Simon J. Whight "typical_moody_dj" (Manchester) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vurt (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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the darkest joy rides you'll ever take!, 31 May 2001
This review is from: Vurt (Paperback)
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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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Reply to mr_cushtie, 3 Sep 2003
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This review is from: Vurt (Paperback)
The complaints about the childishness of the opening sequence coming from someone who only read the opening are understandable. The book is, at its heart, about Scribble's belated maturing into adulthood. The language used to describe the world reflects the language of his childhood, which we soon discover he's only attempting to relive, since his Vurt addiction has stolen it from him, along with his sister.

That the reviewer is unable to cope with the idea of a flawed narrator speaks more of him than of this book, although his reference to 'The Matrix' as the best work on this theme makes me suspect he's trolling. In which case, IHBT IHL HAND.

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