Nymphomation Hb [Hardcover]

Jeff Noon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997

Manchester is gripped by a new lottery game - "Domino Bones". Every Friday night, Manchester stills as the bones tumble into the winning combination. But there is only one real winner - the company that is taking over the city's dreams. Only a band of students can save the city from takeover.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cyberpunk fans will welcome the reprint of Jeff Noon's joyfully received prequel to Vurt, Nymphomation, a conspiracy thriller in which math geniuses Daisy Love and Jazir Malik's fascination with Domino Bones, the seductive new lottery, leads them on a labyrinthine biotech romp fraught with fractal propagation, sinister flying and talking advertisements, futuristic rave culture and murder, artificial intelligence-style.

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From the Publisher

'An exquisitely grimy fable which plunges us into the world of club culture, smart drugs, dumb waiters, artificial life forms and a national lottery from hell' - Independent

'The bizarrely logical world [Noon] creates with its touches of Orwellian satire and William Gibsonesque cybervision is truly original' - Q Magazine

A scarily plausible future of biorobotic advertisements and burger chain sponsored police forces' - THE FACE

'There is a diamond satirical edge to his fertile landscapes... An elegant, inventive and funny polemic against the soulless homogenisation of our country and top science fiction to boot' - SFX

'A wild hallucinatory ride through a nightmare/dream vision of the twentieth century' - LOCUS

'Noon's novel can seem like a recipe for some kind of bizarre night out: weird science, mad drugs, cool jazz, hot curries, paranoic flashes and strange girls with feathers in their hair, and they are written with such energy and audacity that one cannot help join the ride. Nymphomation is an extraordinary book. It's a novel of scientific theory and it's a love story. It's an intellectual experiment and it's a cops 'n' robbers thriller and it's just about the most exciting novel I've read for a while' - FLUX --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 359 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385408129
• ISBN-13: 978-0385408127
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #982,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Double One, February 21, 2000

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Joyce Ketterer (well, I was in Gramstown South Africa when I read it) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nymphomation (Paperback)

Jeff Noon is probably one of the most clever and talented word artists in the Sci genere today. I have read several of his books (even a few I had to get off the UK Amazon site) and I am increasingly impressed. That said, Nyphomation is BY FAR my favorite. Not only can this man think and write but he manages to make it all fun. Having read Vurt first it was just a pleasure when I read Nyphomation and learned what exactly Vaz was and who this Hobart person was (Noon is like Hienline that way). If you haven't read it yet then I am jealous of you cause you are really in for a treat.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So intense I screamed at the end, July 24, 1999

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Nora Fussner (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nymphomation (Paperback)

Nymphomation was an intense reading experience unlike one I've ever had before. Once I realized it was a prequel to Vurt, one of my favorite books, I became even more interested in it. I hate to use cliches, but this book really WAS a non-stop roller coaster ride. It was fast-paced and thrilling, nail-biting and had me "on the edge of my seat."

But seriously - the tension in this book was so high that when I finally finished it - reading the last 200 pages in one long nonstop burst - I screamed to release everything that was pent up inside. If you want a book that will throw you into another world and won't let you out even after the book is closed, read Nymphomation.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's dom, dom, domino time!, December 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nymphomation (Paperback)

Just finished Jeff Noon's latest juicy morsel and I'm buzzing like a blurbfly! This has to be one of Noon's best books yet, filled with all the cyber-grit, humor, and vazed up sexiness that readers have learned to expect from Noon. Play to win my children! This book is jazzing from start to finish. Even I was hoping to win, holding a phantom domino bone in my hand, waiting for Cookie Luck to finish her dance. It's domino time, get this baby while you can and be careful my kittlings this is not a tome to be handled lightly.