Jeff Noon
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Image:Jeffnoon.jpg Jeff Noon (born in 1957 in Droylsden, England) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy. Although sometimes associated with the science fiction genre, Noon's books actually have stronger ties with the works of such literary figures as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges. Prior to his recent relocation (around the year 2000) to Brighton, Noon set most of his stories in some version of his native city of Manchester.
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Novels
Vurt (1993)
Vurt tells the story of Scribble and his "gang" the Stash Riders as they search for his missing sister Desdemona. Vurt refers to a drug/shared alternate reality that is accessed by sucking on color-coded feathers. Through some (never explained) mechanism, the dreams, mythology, and imaginings of humanity achieved objective reality in the Vurt and became "real". The book won the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Pollen (1995)
Pollen is the sequel to Vurt and concerns the ongoing struggle between the real world and the Vurt world.
Automated Alice (1996)
Noon describes Automated Alice as a "trequel" - it is a companion piece of sorts to the famous Lewis Carroll books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The novella follows Alice's journey to a future Manchester populated by Newmonians, Civil Serpents and a vanishing cat named Quark.
Nymphomation (1997)
Nymphomation is the prequel to Vurt. Nymphomation primarily tells the story of a lottery in Manchester involving dominos and a group attempting to crack the secrets of that lottery, but it also sets the background for much of the mythology found in the previous two books.
Bibliography
Novels and novellas
- Vurt (1993), ISBN 1898051038
- Pollen (1995), ISBN 1898051119
- Automated Alice (1996), ISBN 0385408080
- Nymphomation (1997), ISBN 0385408129
- Needle in the Groove (2000), ISBN 1862300917 – Jeff Noon and David Toop also released a CD, Needle in the Groove: if music were a drug, where would it take you, on Sulphur Records in the same year
- Falling Out of Cars (2002), ISBN 0385602960
Short fiction collections
- Pixel Juice (1998), ISBN 0385408595
- Cobralingus (2001), ISBN 1899598162
- Mappalujo (2002) – co-written with Steve Beard, currently only available online
Plays
- Woundings (1986), ISBN 1870259009
- Vurt - The Theatre Remix (1998)
- The Modernists (2003)
External links
- Official website
- The Modern Word: Jeff Noon – An introduction to Jeff Noon and his works
- Mappalujo – A writing game devised by Steve Beard and Jeff NoonTemplate:UK-writer-stub