By Harmon Cooper First Published: 2015 Rating: Excellent Life is a Beautiful Thing is a violent, hallucinatory thrill-ride in the vein of Hunter S. Thompson, William Gibson, and Phillip K. Dick, with a side order of Clockwork Orange. Expect heavy hallucinogen usage, sexual relations with transgender androids, pitched together ramblings of a madman a la William S. Burroughs, graphic violence and murder, political satire, drug…
By Jeff Noon First Published: 2012 Welcome to the new interface. Channel SK1N tells the story of Nola Blue: pop prodigy, the girl every teen wants to be, or be with. She has talent, hit tunes, international fame, everything she could possibly want. But when she begins to pick up TV signals on her skin, Nola is forced on a journey far beyond the boundaries…
By Jeff Noon First Published: 1995 Rating: Good, but flawed. The bestselling author of Vurt spins another audaciously inventive tales of reality gone soft and dreams become real. As an enormous cloud of pollen descends upon a city, people begin to literally sneeze themselves to death. When a cop, one of the few who is immune, sets out to find the source of the plague,…
By Jeff Noon First Published: 1993 Rating: Classic Take a trip in a stranger’s head. Travel rain-shot streets with a gang of hip malcontents, hooked on the most powerful drug you can imagine. Yet Vurt feathers are not for the weak. As the mysterious Game Cat says, ‘Be careful, be very careful’. But Scribble isn’t listening. He has to find his lost love. His journey…
By Yasutaka Tsutsui First Published: 1993 Rating: Classic. At Tokyo’s Institute for Psychiatric Research, beautiful, 29-year-old psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba is effecting rapid cures of schizophrenia. Using devices developed by colleague Kosaku Tokita, a grotesquely obese and child-like genius, Atsuko enters patients’ dreams and participates in them, and she and Tokita have been short-listed for the Nobel Prize. But for reasons of professional jealousy, hubris, and…