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	Jeff Noon: Needle in the Groove - an infinity plus review
		Jeff Noon is an undisputed master of the unconventional, a science fiction writer who has appeal outside the genre, a rare thing and even rarer for a British writer.
		Noon wears his roots and geographical location on his sleeve, and it will come as no surprise to those of you familiar with his work to hear that his latest book is set in....
		As a long standing Jeff Noon fan I always look forward to new releases from him, and I was not disappointed by this one, it is fast moving and dynamic and although not as different as his publishers would have us believe, sufficiently different all the same.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/needle.htm (431 words)

	Jeff Noon
		Jeff Noon (1957 -) is a British author, primarily associated with the science fiction genre.
		He has written several novels, all set in some version of the city of Manchester, a collection of short stories, several other short stories, a play, several newspaper and magazine articles, and an oddity.
		The collection of short stories is Pixel Juice[?], the play is Woundings[?], and the oddity is Cobralingus[?], a short book of pieces derived by applying the techniques of musical remixing[?] to source texts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jeff_Noon.html (95 words)

	Jeff Noon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeff Noon (born in 1957 in Droylsden, Manchester, England) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy.
		Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges.
		Noon's first 4 novels are part of a series sharing ongoing characters and background, commonly referred to after the first novel as the 'Vurt' series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeff_Noon (722 words)

	Cobralingus - Jeff Noon
		However Noon wants to present his method, the results are striking and absorbing.
		Noon begins with a variety of texts: passages from Thomas De Quincey, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, the King James Bible (Ecclesiastes), Michael Bracewell, and others.
		Noon has a fine ear (and eye), and his texts are uniformly successful.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/noonj/clingus.htm (905 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pollen: Books: Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Jeff Noon writes his books on a continuum, each referencing the others and the author in a witty entanglement.
		Jeff Noon's style is so original and smart, that I am tempted to call him a genuis.
		Noon is a well-known English sci-fi writer, and his wild imagaination is on full display in this surreal blend of cyberpunk, science-fiction, drug haze, surrealism, and Greek myth.
	www.amazon.ca /Pollen-Jeff-Noon/dp/0517599902 (1148 words)

	Scriptorium - Jeff Noon
		Jeff Noon was born in 1957 in Droylsden, a small town near Manchester, England.
		Noon’s first novels (Vurt, Pollen and Nymphomation) form a story cycle about a Manchester populated by humans and strange hybrid creatures (such as Dogs, Robos and Shadows) whose lives are rooted around the enigmatic Vurt feathers.
		Noon writes unmistakably human-sized works: his focus is on the individual, his intent is to engage the contemporary imagination.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/noon.html (858 words)

	MadInkBeard - Jeff Noon's Cobralingus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Jeff Noon, best known for his science fiction, has created a rather free process for forming a new text out of an old one.
		The process does not seem as systematized as the language indicates, though, in the introduction (not by Noon) we are told that one of his inspirations is the filters used on music in the recording process.
		Noon mixes prose and poetry, utilizing lists, rhyme, meter, and concrete poetry, all to the service of the journey from one text to another.
	www.madinkbeard.com /archives/jeffnoonscob.html (784 words)

	Amazon.com: Automated Alice: Books: Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Jeff Noon's previous novels, Vurt and Pollen, have attracted a cult following with their psychedelic science fiction creation of the realm of "Vurt"--a region defined by illusion, dream and drug-induced fantasy.
		Noon has now decided to link up with an imaginative precursor by introducing Lewis Carroll's Alice as the protagonist in a new adventure that draws on Carroll's through-the-looking-glass inversions of reality, and adds a Jeff Noon menace and edginess absent from Carroll's Wonderland.
		Noon has taken the trouble to pack every page of his surprisingly linear story with more than enough puzzles and gags to keep the wise child in all of us amused.
	www.amazon.com /Automated-Alice-Jeff-Noon/dp/0552144789 (1488 words)

	Literal Mind. Nymphomation, Jeff Noon
		Noon is the undisputed king of UK Cyberpunk, and his books are a throbbing mass of life filled with dance culture, hard drugs, and streetwise but ultimately frail characters that are victims of circumstance.
		Noon's unique writing style marks him out from his peers as he intentionally crazes and confuses his readers, at the same time drawing them in with cultural nuance and subtle characterization.
		Noon's universe is astoundingly original and will always produce surprises, but the weak character interaction and deep plot complexity will leave all but his most die-hard fans disappointed.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=59 (517 words)

	BBC - South Yorkshire Stage - The Modernists: Jeff Noon interview
		That's what Jeff Noon thought - until he stumbled across a highly individualistic and creative culture that was hijacked by fashion.
		Jeff Noon's futuristic cyberpunk novels have made him a cult author.
		In his new play The Modernists at Sheffield Crucible, Noon sets out to reveal the men who were more dandy than thug, in all their eccentric glory.
	www.bbc.co.uk /southyorkshire/stage/2003/05/mods/index.shtml (920 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Pixel Juice: Books: Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Throughout Noon managesto showcase his talents on a much smaller scale than anything we were uedto in Vurt or Pollen and shows that he is a master.
		Noon also uses language in an entirely different way, the rhythm of his writing and the thoughts he conveys through his words are very powerful - the story might take only two minutes to read but it leaves you pondering the meaning or the moral.
		Jeff Noon has written a book which is incredible, an "off switch" for humans, swarming adverts, and the story of a young pimp who grows up.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Pixel-Juice-Jeff-Noon/dp/0552999377 (1474 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Vurt: Books: Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Jeff Noon’s debut novel is a startling mix of science fiction and fantasy, essentially taking the tropes of cyberpunk SF and transforming them into something far stranger.
		Central of these is vurt itself – where Noon turns the standard hi-tech virtual reality of cyberpunk fiction into a ‘vurt’-ual reality (geddit?) of shared dreaming accessed by the oral intake of various coloured feathers – but Noon’s near-future Manchester is just as bizarre, peopled by robots, shadows, and man/dog hybrids.
		Jeff Noon manages to conjure up a world familar yet warped just beyond our recognition, his writing style is unique, taking life as we know it and projecting just a little into the future.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Vurt-Jeff-Noon/dp/0330338811 (1384 words)

	Jeff Noon
		Jeff Noon (born in 1957 in Droylsden, England) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy.
		Prior to his recent relocation (around the year 2000) to Brighton, Noon set most of his stories in some version of his native city of Manchester.
		Noon describes Automated Alice as a "trequel" - it is a companion piece of sorts to the famous Lewis Carroll books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Jeff_Noon.php (434 words)

	Jeff Noon at Transworld
		'Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester's housing estates: eccentric, surreal and ready to take everything to its most absurd conclusion.
		'Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester's housing estates…the cocktail of alienation, narcotics and gadgetry fizzes with energy' The Times
		'Noon reflects the energy of the rave generation: the hammer and the twist of the music, the language of the computer games addict and the buzz of technology' New Statesman
	www.booksattransworld.co.uk /jeffnoon/home.htm (485 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Vurt
		Jeff Noon studied Combined Arts (Painting and Drama) at Manchester University.
		Noon gives his own synopsis of the novel halfway through, with altered names since it is the guise of a feather simulation, so I'll quote that:
		Jeff Noon gives us a loosely sketched but perfectly realised future that is familiar yet totally alien.
	www.sfsite.com /06a/vu129.htm (718 words)

	Jeff Noon Interview
		Jeff Noon is the author of the cult novel VURT and its sequel POLLEN.
		By the end of it I had these four characters being chased by the cops and there was dogs and robo-crusties and this strange nebulous creature that they were carrying about like a burden.
		And it just started from there and I finished the first chapter and handed it to Steve, and he said, "Jeff this is brilliant, I can't make head nor tale of it!" because Steve's not into that kind of stuff at all.
	www.tulketh.high.btinternet.co.uk /kimota/articles/j_noon.htm (3557 words)

	JEFF NOON interview
		From its initial printing by an upstart publisher in Britain in 1993, Jeff Noon's Vurt has been the subject of much excitement in the world of literary science fiction.
		But as evidenced by the superior, recently-published novel Pollen, Noon's writing is much more than the simple sum of his predecessors' work--his stories are shot through with unabashed emotionalism and rich sensuality, two qualities usually lacking in science fiction.
		As Noon admits, Vurt was something of "a mad rush through the streets of Manchester," a heady but sometimes confusing mix of plot and hallucinatory storytelling.
	www.jaybabcock.com /noon.html (1728 words)

	Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Falling Out of Cars is part of Noon’s continuing revolt out of genre and into creative resistance against all traditional forms of fiction, as if he believes that the ultimate incomprehensibility of narrative.
		‘To his fans Jeff Noon is a punk Aldous Huxley stringing together images and oddities to assemble an apocalyptic dreamworld...
		Acknowledged as one of the most exciting new authors today, Jeff Noon is the author of five novels: Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, and Needle in the Groove; and a collection of short stories, Pixel Juice.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/jeffnoon.html (718 words)

	Jeff Noon's FALLING OUT OF CARS - book review
		Filling the bathroom in fl reason, crawling out of the bathroom, into the study where the computer trembles in the shadows, switching on the damned machine and pouring their judgement into the seething lines of pixels scrolling madly before my eyes.
		FALLING OUT OF is the sixth novel from Jeff Noon and it takes form of entries in a personal diary that belongs to the lead female character, Marlene Moore.
		We have tasted in Noon’s other works the Vaz smeared tickle of VURT’s data feathers, the nasal-cavity sting of Manchester’s POLLEN and the time travelling antics of his AUTOMATED ALICE but this piece is a road novel for the post-psychedelic generation gone wrong, unwoven, ripped at the seams.
	www.feoamante.com /Stories/Reviews/DEF/Falling_OutCars.html (556 words)

	Amazon.com: Vurt: Books: Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		As Noon gradually reveals a complex society where there are humans, mechanicals, dog people, and Vurt people you realize that the only thing with approaches normalcy us the ugliness of police behavior, where the worst that people can do to each other is enshrined as law.
		Jeff Noon writes in such a way that whether you want to be or not, you're swept up in the book's quick pace.
		Jeff Noon has his own way of writing which you will either love or hate.
	www.amazon.com /Vurt-Jeff-Noon/dp/0312141440 (1467 words)

	Urban Desires Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Noon quit his job at the bookstore as soon as he heard about the sale.
		Vurt, for example, was initially a stopgap, a word that Noon was using instead of "virtual reality" until he could come up with a better name; the substitute was so odd-sounding that it stuck.
		Meanwhile, Noon has already completed a third novel, one with a slightly different setting that will be released in Britain in the fall, and has story ideas for at least two other stories about the Vurt universe.
	www.desires.com /2.1/Word/Reviews/Docs/noon-int.html (675 words)

	but she’s a girl… » Pollen - Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In Pollen, Noon explains that due to some kind of environmental catastrophe, human fertility crashed to unsustainable levels.
		His description of all this strangeness reminds me of one of those flip-books you might have had as a child, where pictures of people and animals are divided horizontally in two places, and you flip the pages over to create weird and wonderful mixtures.
		Jeff Noon’s writing reminds me most of Lewis Carroll–indeed, Noon has written a third ‘Alice’ book called ‘Automated Alice’, so he must be a fan.
	www.rousette.org.uk /blog/archives/2003/11/29/pollen-jeff-noon (708 words)

	Jeff Noon: www.jeffnoon.com
		Jeff Noon's new novel is now available to order from Amazon.co.uk.
		Despite appearing in the Amazon.com catalogue, Jeff has stated that FOOC currently does not have a US publisher and therefore is not available in the US.
		Jeff's "online collaborative visual project" with Steve Beard (author of Digital Leatherette amongst others) is now live.
	www.jeffnoon.com (873 words)

	Amazon.com: Pollen: Books: Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This is the third Jeff Noon book I've read, the others Vurt and Nymphomation both taking place before this one.
		I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed Vurt but urge anyone who hasn't read any of Jeff Noon's work to start with Vurt or Nymphomation first as a good deal of the background as well as some minor characters draw from these books and benefit from some prior exposure.
		Still a great book and i recomend it highly just because Noon is an amazing writer and it is worth reading just to see his words leap off the page and swim in your mind.
	www.amazon.com /Pollen-Jeff-Noon/dp/0517599902 (1680 words)

	Falling Out Of Cars by Jeff Noon
		Noon writes assuredly and any confusion or inconsistencies in the plot are there because he put them there, purposefully.
		Noon alludes to 'Alice In Wonderland' on numerous occasions, as the main characters travel around the south of England in search of magical shards of what may be Alice's mirror.
		Noon's prose is sublime and, though the plot suffers somewhat as a result, it doesn't matter.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_dec/review1203_23.shtml (561 words)

	Pollen by Jeff Noon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In 1995 Jeff Noon read from Pollen on Radio One in the UK from Monday 30th October, and also at bookshops around the country.
		Jeff Noon was also online with state51 to answer questions live on Friday 3rd November at 16.00 GMT.
		We have details of this and other works by Jeff Noon from Ringpull, the publishers of Pollen.
	www.state51.co.uk /pollen (297 words)

	Jeff Noon, Vurt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		When I finished reading Jeff Noon's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Vurt on the subway ride into work recently, my reaction was, "ho hum." Vurt had been on my bookshelf for quite a while and many of the reasons I'd let it sit so long proved to be true.
		Noon provides no explanation for this transfer, which takes not just the mind but the body across the
		I did like Noon's use of chemical rather than technological virtual reality, but here again I felt that his approach was less rigorous than I wanted.
	www.rambles.net /noon_vurt.html (273 words)

	Falling Out Of Cars by Jeff Noon
		Noon alludes to 'Alice In Wonderland' on numerous occasions, as the main characters travel around the south of England in search of magical shards of what may be Alice's mirror.
		Noon's highly stylistic prose feels very cinematic and it is not hard to imagine 'Falling Out Of Cars' becoming a film someday, directed by Davids Lynch or Cronenberg.
		Noon's prose is sublime and, though the plot suffers somewhat as a result, it doesn't matter.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_dec/review1203_23.shtml (561 words)

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