Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon was a Manchester based Science Fiction author (though he now lives in Brighton). His first three novels (Vurt, Pollen, and Nymphomation) are all set in a near-future Manchester. His work is arguably Cyber Punk, but with perhaps a little less emphasis on the 'cyber'. He claims he's not SF any more, and possibly never was. He used to work in Waterstones Manchester Deansgate.

• http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/jeffnoon/home.htm His publisher's website
• http://unwound.livid.com/noon.html
• http://www.jeffnoon.com/index.php

Bibliography:

• Vurt
• Pollen
• Automated Alice
• Nymphomation
• Pixel Juice
• Needle in the Groove
• Cobralingus
• Falling Out of Cars

The Vurt trilogy are reasonably good (and certainly very distinctive), Pixel Juice (a collection of short stuff) is great, and Automated Alice is great fun. -- TA

Reading Automated Alice recently has suddenly made clear to me, having not read the Alice books for years (if at all), what a great writer Lewis Carroll? really was. But Automated Alice was written by Jeff Noon! Thrice curs'd am I, a fool! Does anyone else find it takes reading an homage/pastiche to make them realise how great an original really was? If so, could someone dash off a quick pastiche of the complete works of Peter F Hamilton, preferably shorter?--MF

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