Books by Jeff Noon and Complete Book Reviews
Jeff Noon, Author St. Martin's Griffin $16.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-14144-8
British novelist Noon debuts with a futuristic tale of a hallucinogenic drug that spins users into virtual worlds. (Feb.)
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Jeff Noon, Author Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A. - Mondadori $10.47 (333p) ISBN 978-84-397-0538-3
Truly weird and wild science fiction featuring junkie Scribble, addicted to the virtual reality thrills afforded by vurt feathers, this first novel won the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award. Two follow-ups, Pollen and Needle in the Grove, will also be
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Jeff Noon, Author Crown Publishers $22 (342p) ISBN 978-0-517-59991-4
Noon's highly stylized, virtual-reality inspired first novel has won raves and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in Britain, eliciting comparisons to William Gibson, Anthony Burgess and Lewis Carroll, among others. But though it is original, vivid and...
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Jeff Noon, Author Crown Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59990-7
Again Noon plunges us into the psychedelic, near-future Manchester of his first novel, Vurt. In this city peopled by mutant crossbreeds (robodogs, dogboys, zombies), the barriers between reality and the Vurt--a kind of shared dreamworld accessed by...
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Jeff Noon, Author Crown Publishers $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70490-5
If Lewis Carroll had sent Alice off on an adventure into the future, what might it have been like? Noon (Pollen, 1995) answers this question in his wild and farcical third novel. Puns, riddles, numerical puzzles and cockeyed literary references...
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Jeff Noon, Author Transworld Publishers $13.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-552-99906-9
Cyberpunk fans will welcome the reprint of Jeff Noon's joyfully received prequel to Vurt, Nymphomation, a conspiracy thriller in which math geniuses Daisy Love and Jazir Malik's fascination with Domino Bones, the seductive new lottery, leads them on
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Jeff Noon. Angry Robot, $14.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-85766-670-3
Noon (Mappalujo) has written a kaleidoscopic noir novel of dizzying dream logic, but the center doesn’t hold. Nyquist is an average gumshoe in an unique world. He travels between Dayzone, land of a thousand lights that burn at all hours, and...
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Jeff Noon. Angry Robot, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-857668-40-0
Noon (The Body Library) remixes classic horror elements in this outstanding paranormal mystery, his third to feature British PI John Nyquist. In 1959, Nyquist receives an envelope of photographs from an unknown sender, one of which depicts Nyquist’s
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Jeff Noon. Angry Robot, $14.99 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-0-85766-898-1
Noon’s fourth supernatural mystery featuring private investigator John Nyquist (after Creeping Jenny) is less successful than his others, with a mind-bending plot that’s both nonlinear and confusing. In 1960, Nyquist and his assistant, Teddy...
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Jeff Noon and Steve Beard. Angry Robot, $18.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-915202-82-6
The peculiar latest from Noon and Beard (who last collaborated on Mappaluj) takes readers on a river journey through a land of plant-human hybrids, steadfast robots, and the haunting spirit of a dead dragon. Arcadia “Cady” Meade is a 78-year-old...
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