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Vurt is a feather--a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colors: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows--the feathers from which there is no escape. The beautiful young Desdemona is trapped in Curious Yellow, the ultimate Metavurt, a feather few have ever seen and fewer still have dared ingest. Her brother Scribble will risk everything to rescue his beloved sister. Helped by his gang, the Stash Riders, hindered by shadowcops, robos, rock and roll dogmen, and his own dread, Scribble searches along the edges of civilization for a feather that, if it exists at all, must be bought with the one thing no sane person would willingly give.

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British novelist Noon debuts with a futuristic tale of a hallucinogenic drug that spins users into virtual worlds.
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“Surreal.” ―the New York Times

“A virtual wonderland.” ―Vanity Fair

“The mainstreaming of cyberpunk.” ―the New Yorker

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed edition (January 15, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 342 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312141440
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312141448
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.79 x 8.5 inches

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Jeff Noon was born in Manchester in 1957. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His first novel, Vurt, was published in 1993 and went on to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His other books include Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Pixel Juice, Needle in the Groove, Cobralingus, Falling Out Of Cars and most recently Channel Sk1n. His plays include Woundings, The Modernists and Dead Code.

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Jordan Summer

Fun Surrealism for Fans of Alternate Psychedelic Dystopian Reality-Hopping

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2014

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I liked this book!

It has a definite pulp feel and patterns after authors like Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs, writing about strange psychedelic experiences in surreal dystopian futures. In fact the writing is nowhere as good as either of those authors, and there are places where the narrative is scattered and loose. But overall it's a wonderful ride, one that doesn't come around very often.

Many elements of this strange story are unforgettably hallucinatory. The world the story takes place in is developed quite well. Finally, the story, in the end, could probably be read somewhat allegorically, and it is possible that there are intimations at deeper levels of purpose and symbolism than I am now aware of.

It's a fun, and moves fast, and is full of beauty and strangeness that, again, the combination-of is quite rare. I do recommend it, especially for fans of alternate-reality stories.

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Bart Mann

A deep and reverent WOW!

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Not for everyone's taste I suppose, but the way Noon uses language is like an exquisitely crafted music box. I am a writer as well and Noon is one of the voices that inspire my deep love of words. It is like he is plugged directly into my brain, and knows all the right buttons to push. His plotting is wildly imaginative, perhaps too much so for the casual reader. But if you can let go of expectations and just enjoy the ride, you will probably like the places he goes.

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Unique story, waaay out there

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This was possibly the most bizarre story I've ever heard. That said, it was also unique, engaging and brilliant. Jeff Noon creates a whole new world, and that's no small feat in a saturated genre like Sci-Fi.
The voice acting was amazing.
If you're into something wild and new, you need this one. I loved it and only subtracted one star because it was the abridged version.

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Imaginative, Unique Science Fiction

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This is a fun read for anyone interested in science fiction with unusual, weird plots. You won't read anything quite like this! It is one of those books that are hard to put down once you've started.

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Mark Nadja

A wad of neural bubblegum; tough to swallow

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Take away the superficial stylistic jazziness and this is a very conventional story about a guy on a hazardous journey to bring his lover back from Virtual Hell. You know, like Orpheus. Here, though, Noon sets the archetypal drama in a world where drugs come in the form of feathers that open onto a kaleidoscopic variety of different realities...

Well, this whole feather-drug connection is just one of the many largely unnecessary complications Noon employs to make an old story seem fresh and original. At best, *Vurt* can be seen as William S. Burroughs for pre-teens. Maybe I would have found something like *Vurt* profound when I was twelve. But it's hard for me to believe that even a relatively sophisticated adult reader would get much out of this novel but a few hours of mindless entertainment. Cardboard characters, emotional clichés, a plotline driven largely by coincidence, chance, and the seemingly arbitrary switch of allegiances wherever convenient, *Vurt* has a lot in common with your basic Hollywood sci-fi thriller--a sequence of action scenes and `surprise' twists that come at you so rapidly you don't have time to realize that none of it really adds up. Except that in a novel you *do* have the time--and in *Vurt* the plot is laid down like a guy running away from a fire.

A great deal of this novel simply reads like a confused mess through which Noon affected an escape wherever necessary by making the language and plot even more messy and confusing. It's the sort of novel where whenever the author runs himself into an impasse he simply has the main character jump to a different drug/feather induced `reality' or reveal a character's `secret' identity or change of allegiance. Problem solved, right? Not really. You have to be extremely deft to play as fast and loose with story the way Noon is trying to do in *Vurt,* you have to really have something to say, and *Vurt* is filled with nothing more than pseudo profundities.

There are a few well-done passages here and there, some isolated images that momentarily arrest one's attention, and even times when you think there's going to be something to *Vurt,* after all--but, for me, this was a largely empty and disappointing read, very much over-hyped and over-rated, and pretty well forgettable, just like yesterday's bubblegum. Not total dreck, but only one star away from it.

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....You are younger (<16), you don't like reading about drug use, don't like cyber-punk-sci-fi-fanasy novels, don't like being simultaniously confused and enthralled, or didn't enjoy the original Alice in Wonderland story. This book is excellent, especially for people who love doing mental yoga and/or have a history of psychedelic use. Cheers

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Sorry. Just not for me.

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I can't say you won't like it. I CAN say I didn't.

I won't go into a long summary of the plot or anything. I thought I did my research (I love reading Amazon reviews), but apparently I didn't read enough reviews to know that this book has characters who are genetically "dogmen". Now, I'm ok with werewolves, but this was just corny. Cheeseball. Dorked out. You get the idea.

One other thing I didn't like... Some authors really take the time to introduce you to new concepts. They slowly paint the world for you. Let you get familiar with it. Not Noon. You are thrown into this world. Wham! Sorry if you don't know what the Vurt is, you'll figure it out around page 50. I give every book 100 pages to make or break it. By page 100, I was enough into this one to finish it out. But the first 40 or 50 pages are tough -- at least they were for me. Those of you who like to jump right in, this might be for you.

Otherwise, it is what you would expect from Matrix, Total Recall, yada yada. Just a little bit trashier, cornier, blah, blah.

Hate to sound so negative. I really wish I could recommend this. I will say, I got a few compliments on the cover art.

Ciao.

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Marguerite Jacques

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Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2013

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This is my favorite book ever. Jeff Noon is one of my favorite authors. This story is captivating and exciting, as well as every single other book of his I have read. I highly suggest checking at least this book out from his works.

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Mel Powell

A Drug addled dystopian, roller coaster of a nightmare

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2016

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I think I have read other reviews that make comparisons to Gaiman and PK Dick and the novel, Trainspotting. And yes, the elements of fantasy, the dreamlike quality, the uncertain nature of reality of some of these writers works and the disjointed, frenetic pace and structure of Trainspotting are all there but it doesn't feel derivative.
It feels like the complete vision of this authors imagination. A drug addled, dystopian roller coaster of a nightmare; set in an alternate reality which blurs the boundaries between real life and the 'feather' high and an unfamiliar cast of creatures: human, synthetic, part canine and shadow.
None of these things is ever fully explained but that is part and parcel of the experience.
Reading this novel is like jumping onto a moving train which takes you through an unfamiliar landscape at break neck speed. All the scenery is there but there's no time to fully examine it and you didn't get your copy of the guide book. You have to keep up with the narrator and main protagonist, Scribble and hope that the most pertinent dots will be joined up as the adventure moves along. Some are, some aren't. However, the story still manages to be: humorous, revolting, violent, moving, tense, poignant and always engaging.
I'm really not sure if it's a three and a half or a five star rating. I'm still ruminating but from the jumping on point, I liked it. I liked it a lot, so I'll go with four stars. Bite down on the feather if you dare and see where it takes you.
Note on the Kindle version: only spotted one small typo; other than that, all good.

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Paul Cadogan

An all time classic!

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I first read this amazingly imaginative novel at university in Manchester, the city in which the story is based. It's a very different Manchester to the one we know today, inhabited not just by pure humans but a number of genetic hybrids of dogs, technology, Vurt & all sorts of other crazy things. As simply as I can explain it without giving anything away, in the future they discover the world of dreams, The Vurt world where people go as a means of recreation to escape reality & chase forbidden pleasures....or pain! They do this by means of special feathers that are like access keys to the Vurt world. The story follows a group of young desperados on their quest to find English Voodoo, a rare & powerful feather that will take them into the Vurt beyond where any of them have been before. This is one of my favourite books and the world that Jeff Noon creates in it's pages definitely left me wanting more. A classic for the Gen X crowd I'd say. P.S: If you enjoy this read the follow up Pollen straight after.

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Welcome to a new world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2002

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"Awake, you know that dreams exist. Inside a dream you think the dream IS reality. Inside a dream you have no knowlage of the waking world".
Reality is a Manchester of the future, a slightly darker, grimmer Manchester to the one we know. The door to the dream is the Vurt feather. place it in your mouth, brush it on your throat,lay it on your tounge...and you are there.
Meet Scribble who is searching for his sister - lost to the vurt, His friends who seek different things within the escapism offered by the feathers, and through it all the Game Cat. Listen to the Cat kitlings for he has travelled the feathers, He has ridden the vurt, and he knows...far more than he is telling.
I picked this up on a recommendation and am now on my third copy, it's been borrowed, borrowed back (by me) and the only reason I needed extra copies was to replace the one that didn't come back ( thanx guys). Expect Noon to take you places you'd never been and never thaught to go - and my advice ? Dont pick it up unless you have time to finish it...you WONT want to put it down.
..and a girl puts a feather into her mouth

Charles Stobert

UK Cyberpunk with a mutated and other-worldy feel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2014

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One of the best-kept secrets in cyberpunk. I guess a bit TOO out there to have gone mainstream popular like Gibson but this guy really knows how to write and has such bold ideas that you're left mouth agape at many stages in this fast-paced brain melting novel.

I downloaded this on a whim and was not disappointed. 'Vurt' is set against the backdrop of a future (and alternate) Manchester where gene splicing has led to a whole variety of new human-animal-robo hybrids, along with the blending of these with a virtual dream world called the Vurt, to which everyone is addicted, and a psychic ability imbued by 'shadow'. It follows the fortunes of a streetwise gang whose members, as documented by the 1st person character Mr Squiggle, really go through the grinder in the continual search for the next Vurt high and a lover / sister lost in a virtual dream world where nothing is for free and must be exchanged for something of equal 'value' in the real world (sometimes that something is a friend or loved one).

Brilliant, challenging and a real gem of a debut novel by a UK author that, if you're a hard cyberpunk fan, you'll be adding to your list of favourites!

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