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follows Elliot Hill, a bass player and ex-junkie trudging the pub-rock circuit, who is invited to join a new band: fusing DJ artistry, voice and rhythm section, the group's hypnotic groove creation is augmented by a startling new recording technology. The band seems bound for success - until one of
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The Engine begins with Noon using an existing text and then applying different 'filter gates' that edit the text into something new. Examples of these gates include 'enhance' which creates elements of beauty in the text, and 'ghost edit'; this kills the text and calls up a ghost to haunt the text.
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sits apart from Noon's other published works. It is part anthology of poems and part instructional textbook for Noon's style of poetry. In it, he details his regimented methods for the creation of poetic text by a style of word play which lends its name to the title. Also included are various
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is a road novel set in a near-future world where information-based civilization is falling apart. It follows the journey of Marlene, Henderson, and Peacock as they drive around England on a mission to gather fragments of a mirror that may be at the heart of the world's affliction.
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is the record Marlene keeps - or tries to keep - of her quest to flee from her past. Despite her daily dose of Lucidity, Marlene is gradually succumbing to the malady, and it gets harder and harder to distinguish dream from reality, hallucinations from events.
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There are also references to popular musical figures, with two notable characters. Firstly, James Marshall Hentrails, a sculpture made of rubbish, and who contains the insides (entrails) of a hen. This character is obviously a reference to
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and Noon. Only published online, this collection of short stories is set in a fictional British apartment building and features stories about the lives of each inhabitant, to which each author contributed. No longer available online.
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primarily tells the story of a lottery in Manchester involving dominos and a group attempting to crack the secrets of that lottery, but it also sets the background for much of the mythology found in the previous three books.
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refers to a drug/shared alternate reality that is accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers. Through some (never explained) mechanism, the dreams, mythology, and imaginings of humanity achieved objective reality in the
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Noon's first four novels, which share ongoing characters and settings, are commonly referred to as the 'Vurt series' (after the first novel). Although the fictional chronology leads from
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was expected to go into production in 2012. It may come to screens sometime in the future. The feature was based on the short story of the same name published in
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them vanishes. Elliot's subsequent search draws him into a secret history of music that stretches back forty years and into his own past. Jeff Noon and
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Secondly, the character of Long Distance Davis, who Alice meets in a police cell, is a reference to jazz musician and trumpet player
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follows popstar Nola Blue on a journey of transformation as she begins to pick up signals on her skin. It was published as a
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tells the story of Scribble and his "gang" the Stash Riders as they search for his missing sister Desdemona.
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On 28 August 2011, Noon began a Twitter account where he posts what he has described as
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Jeff also publishes "microfictions" set in Sparkletown under the pseudonym
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as a "trequel" - it is a companion piece of sorts to Lewis Carroll's books
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Needle in the Groove: if music were a drug, where would it take you
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and concerns the ongoing struggle between the real world and the
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world. When concerning the "vurtual" world, some references to
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himself. The writing style of Noon is very similar to that of
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Guardian Books Podcast: Science Fiction Now and Tomorrow
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Sam Leith's Top 10 Alternative Realities: The Guardian.
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Interview with Jeff surrounding Channel SK1N release,
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Radio interview of Jeff Noon on Bookworm, April, 1996
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Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, painter
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Pixel Juice is a collection of fifty short stories.
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