A science fiction novel written by British author Jeff Noon that won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994. The book tells the story of Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister (and lover), Desdemona. Set in an imaginary version of Manchester, in a society that revolves around Vurt, a hallucinogenic shared reality that can be accessed by sucking on color-coded feathers.
It has been somehow compared to William Gibson's famous Neuromancer novel, which popularized the science fiction genre known as cyberpunk. Nevertheless, other reviews chose to emphasize its implausible science and "wild and kaleidoscopic" yet unsatisfying plot.
Technical description:
Title: Vurt.
Author: Jeff Noon.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin.
Edition: New York (USA), 1993.
Pages: 342 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-312-14144-8
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