Jeff Noon

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>