Vurt

I remember my sharp delight, in 1993 on first discovering Vurts hallucinogenic VR-induced Manchester. It instantly became one of my favourite examples of new directions in science fiction, and remains so these decades later! William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral An intense, blistering story about the price of knowledge, full of dreamers and borderlands. Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls Passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling. The Times A gripping piece of speculative fiction. The Guardian Refreshing, disturbing and original. The Independent An audacious fantasia, exhibiting a narrative daring and command few new writers can boast, sweeping the reader along as though it were a Vurt feather-trip itself. Publishers Weekly Subversive, transgressive. It gets under your skin like Cronenberg. Chuck Wendig These books, the best books, discover the essential human notes of their times, and they ring so strongly down the decades that we remember them still. Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan Vivid, restless, street-writing, neon-noir, ranging widely through fantasies and rationalities. An utterly unique, quite brilliant piece of writing. Adam Roberts, author of Jack Glass Vurt was a better Philip K. Dick novel than most of Dicks own books Richard Kadrey

JEFF NOON is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He won the Arthur C Clarke Award for Vurt, the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer, a Tinniswood Award for innovation in radio drama and the Mobil prize for playwriting. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His previous book, The Body Library, was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award.