num_pages: 342
description: Vurt is a feather--a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colors: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows--the feathers from which there is no escape.The beautiful young Desdemona is trapped in Curious Yellow, the ultimate Metavurt, a feather few have ever seen and fewer still have dared ingest. Her brother Scribble will risk everything to rescue his beloved sister. Helped by his gang, the Stash Riders, hindered by shadowcops, robos, rock and roll dogmen, and his own dread, Scribble searches along the edges of civilization for a feather that, if it exists at all, must be bought with the one thing no sane person would willingly give."As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurt is passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling�first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."�The London Times.
language: English
title: Vurt
titlecomplete: Vurt
genres: British Literature, Science Fiction, Novels, Surreal, Science Fiction Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 9504
series: Vurt
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin