Needle in the Groove - Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon in general

I love Jeff Noons books. I can't say that enough. They are some of the richest, most captivating fiction around. I think what makes them so accessible is that they are set in the near future which allows the reader to relate with the surroundings. His books seem to be working backwards, getting closer to our own time in each novel, answering questions that I had never even thought of. Characters from previous books are reintroduced, or referred to, and although this in no way deters from the story if you haven't read the previous book you do feel a rush of familiarity as if recognising an old friend. Saying this though I am a little confused by his later ...

Jeff Noon in general

Jeff Noon must be one of the most original authors writing today. He's put his own original spin on cyberpunk, replacing a computer generated virtual world with one that is more a shared halucination, where most of the world (not just humans but dogs, 'shadows' and robots, and any conceivable mix of them populate his world) have replaced all traditional forms of entertainment or drugs with feathers, which take you to the vurt, where anything is possible - but if you take the black market feathers then death in the vurt means you don't come back. All 3 of his books that I've read have been set in Manchester in the near future (knowing the streets he writes about ...

Pollen - Jeff Noon

"Pollen", Jeff Noon's follow up to "Vurt" was something of a disappointment. I really enjoyed the first book and couldn't wait to read this one. Like Vurt this book is set in near future Manchester and a dream world, and it is from this dream world that a pollen is released into the real world, ...