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Born 1957. British novelist. | Born in 1957 in Droylsden, Lancashire. British novelist, playwright, bookseller, performer and short-story writer. | ||
[[ | Noon's first four novels, which share characters and settings, are commonly referred to as the 'Vurt series': ''Vurt'' (1993), ''Pollen'' (1995), ''Automated Alice'' (1996), and ''Nymphomation'' (1997). ''[[Automated Alice]]'' is a "trequel" to [[Lewis Carroll]]’s two Alice books: ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (1865) and ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]], and What Alice Found There'' (1871). | ||
Other novels are ''Pixel Juice'' (1998), a collection of fifty short stories, '' Needle in the Groove'' (2000), a novella, which follows Elliot Hill in Manchester's music scene during the latter half of the twentieth-century, ''Cobralingus'' (2001) a collection of ten short pieces that Noon calls "metamorphiction" , ''Falling out of Cars'' (2002) a road novel that follows the journey of Marlene Moore, who is a journalist, and three more companions around a diseased England and ''217 Babel Street'' (2008), which is a project with four authors, Susanna Jones, Alison MacLeod, William Shaw and Noon. It consists of a series of interconnected short stories in a fictional British apartment building. | |||
Bibliography: | |||
Noon, Jeff. ''Metamorphiction'' - Official site. 15 June 2012 <http://www.metamorphiction.com/> | |||
Santala, Ismo. "Jeff Noon". ''The Modern Word''. 15 June 2012 <http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/noon.html> | |||
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Born in 1957 in Droylsden, Lancashire. British novelist, playwright, bookseller, performer and short-story writer.
Noon's first four novels, which share characters and settings, are commonly referred to as the 'Vurt series': Vurt (1993), Pollen (1995), Automated Alice (1996), and Nymphomation (1997). Automated Alice is a "trequel" to Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
Other novels are Pixel Juice (1998), a collection of fifty short stories, Needle in the Groove (2000), a novella, which follows Elliot Hill in Manchester's music scene during the latter half of the twentieth-century, Cobralingus (2001) a collection of ten short pieces that Noon calls "metamorphiction" , Falling out of Cars (2002) a road novel that follows the journey of Marlene Moore, who is a journalist, and three more companions around a diseased England and 217 Babel Street (2008), which is a project with four authors, Susanna Jones, Alison MacLeod, William Shaw and Noon. It consists of a series of interconnected short stories in a fictional British apartment building.
Bibliography:
Noon, Jeff. Metamorphiction - Official site. 15 June 2012 <http://www.metamorphiction.com/>
Santala, Ismo. "Jeff Noon". The Modern Word. 15 June 2012 <http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/noon.html>