An utterly unique, quite brilliant piece of writing. “Vivid, restless, street-writing, neon-noir, ranging widely through fantasies and rationalities. It gets under your skin like Cronenberg.” “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.” “A gripping piece of speculative fiction.” “Passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling.” – Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls “An intense, blistering story about the price of knowledge, full of dreamers and borderlands.” Jeff Noon is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy. – William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral It instantly became one of my favourite examples of new directions in science fiction, and remains so these decades later!” “I remember my sharp delight, in 1993 on first discovering Vurt’s hallucinogenic VR-induced Manchester.
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