Brodie 'et al' liken Scribble's incorporation of Vurt technology into his biological body as a metaphor for the revelation potentially gained through drug use. In 'High Anxieties', a book exploring the modern concept of addiction, Scribble is used as an example of a character who has traded addiction for a chance at transcendence.

It has been stylistically compared to William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, as well as Anthony Burgess's ' A Clockwork Orange'. 'Vurt' achieved both critical and commercial success, attracting praise from the science fiction community as well as the literary arena. Hobart - the mysterious figure who created Vurt. The Thing From Outer Space - a creature from the Vurt-world, exchanged for Desdemona.īeetle - the driver and unofficial leader of the Stash Riders. Mandy - the newest addition to the Stash Riders. Scribble - the protagonist and first-person narrator. From that point on, Scribble is on a mission to find another copy of the rare and contraband Curious Yellow feather (found within English Voodoo), so that he can exchange The Thing for Desdemona. Through some (never explained) mechanism, the dreams, mythology, and imaginings of humanity have achieved objective reality in the Vurt and become 'real'.īefore the novel begins, Scribble and his sister-lover take a shared trip into a vurt called English Voodoo, but upon awakening Scribble finds his sister has been replaced by an amorphous blob he nicknames 'The Thing from Outer Space'.

The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers. 'Vurt' tells the story of Scribble and his 'gang', the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. Last= Lesher |first=Linda Parent |pages=95-96 | publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=0786407425 |year=2002 |url= |accessdate= ]

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Clarke Award and was later listed in 'The Best Novels of the Nineties'. Both Noon and small publishing house Ringpull's debut novel, Citation |last=Noon |first=Jeff |url= |title=Where the Stories Come From |accessdate= ] it went on to win the 1994 Arthur C. Vurt is a 1993 science fiction novel written by British author Jeff Noon. Media_type = Print ( Paperback & Hardback) & Audiobook Image_caption = Cover of uncorrected proof

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