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... to be Day of Empire, it was such an interesting read I'd definitely read it again.
And my favorite fiction book would be Vurt. It was such a weird read but I loved everything it was about and how the author portrayed everything. ... is a great writer, I could honestly end this little review here. The book was amazing, in some parts it reminded me of Vurt(listed above), especially when the protagonist was getting tortured. Even though this story is fiction, I love to read how many of the things mentioned can relate to ... Book 21, Vurt by Jeff Noon. I've been looking for this book for ages! And finally, I found it. After reading it, I've come to the conclusion that it was well worth the wait. This book was simply amazing. This is my first time reading anything "Cyberpunk" or Science Fiction and at first I was ... ... - I liked Startide rising - not brilliant but enjoyable enough, and a good concept. Certainly I'd anti-antirec it.
#40 vurt I've not read, but I loved the short stories in pixel juice how would you say they compare?
Some more in my Rubbish Collection:
empyrion by Lawhead. He's ... ... point.
Robert Anton Wilson. If you want conspiracy theory SF try Jack Womack, going, going, gone.
Sometimes i like vurt and Noon's books in general and other times i think - god, what self important psychedelic blathering. At the moment i have him in the "blather box."
argh. that's ... ... Grimwood
Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Vurt by Jeff Noon
... 75 book target as I am starting late and longer work hours may get the better of me, but I will give it a go. :-)
1. Vurt - Jeff Noon
2. Anathem - Neal Stephenson
3. Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
4. Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks
5. The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe
6. ... I got 3 Jeff noon books Vurt, Pollen and Nymphomation. Selected works by Cicero, a Tolkien illustrated encylopaedia and Heroes of the Dawn Celtic myth, part of the timelife Myth and Mankind series i thouight Valis (not to mention the rest of PKD's oeuvre) weighed heavily upon Jeff Noon's Vurt and Noon's other hallucinatory stories. I've always felt a bit bemused and detached from both PKD and Noon and felt like i was under appreciating them both. I'd like to see Vurt as a short, animated film. ... by Jules Verne HAS to be in there.
I see reading_fox has already mentioned one Pixel Juice, but but I'd like to push
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson should at least get a nomination, IMO.
Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol (which will never make ... ... The Diamond Age
Ian McDonald - Sacrifice of Fools
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside
John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up
Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
Micha ... ... my ratings immediately after I read something...) When I read Pixel Juice for the fourth or fifth time, I re-adjusted Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation and Automated Alice accordingly, based upon my corrected ratings.
My books with 1/2 star or 1 star are usually books that I'd rather ... ... to be experimental and trippy..but unlike, say, Womak, in Going, Going Gone or even a off the wall, but tru sci fi like Vurt it strikes me as experimentation but not esp. sci-fi-ish (?). Maybe i should try again, but i've never finished a Doctorow book. ... notes. And on my reading. See above about work eating my life. So, please forgive the brevity and rush...
35 and 36. Vurt and Pollen by Jeff Noon
Good to go back to these, with a beautifully-imagined alternate Manchester, in a world where there there's an overlap of drugs, ... ... student and all).
FAVORITE BOOK(s): War and Peace (no joke), Lord of the Rings, 1984, Brave New World, Vurt, Snow Crash, Contact, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of the Second Order (again no joke), Pixel Juice, plus many others... see my catalog for more ... I'm re-reading Jeff Noon's Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation, and Automated Alice and possibly Needle in the Groove and Pixel Juice as well as the Rudy Rucker Ware Tetrology: Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware.
I read the Vurt collection and the Ware collection about once every ... ... wrong end of mountains for you, but my knowledge of caving books, good or bad, is zilch :-)
And I'd recommend reading Vurt, by Jeff Noon, as I noticed you liked Pixel Juice. It's partly fun for the Manchester references but I also remember it being a suitably entertaining and bizarre ... ... thought of before in your quest for Urban Fantasy, but I think does fit (although is tagged Science Fiction quite a bit) is Vurt by Jeff Noon. Kind of weird, but kind of cool as well. And set in Manchester, where I used to live, which always makes books more fun. ... theories.)
Some of the winners of major awards for books published in 1993:
Green Mars, Red Mars, Glimpses, Vurt, Elvissey Growing Up Weightless. (And btw, I'm not arguing that Snow Crash is not as good as any of those. But, clearly, some people were willing to make ... (part 4 of 6)
"Cyberpunk Flavoured"
Jeff Noon (Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation)
Greg Egan (Quarantine, Permutation City)
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (neoAddix, Lucifer's Dragon, reMix, redRobe)
Gwyneth Jones (Escape Plans, Kairos)
Shariann Lewitt (Memento Mori ...
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