Nymphomation [Paperback]

Jeff Noon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities. The Company has developed the nymphomation, and has the power to devour the city's dreams

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.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts: automated advertisements chanting their slogans. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. Every Friday night, the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. For the winner, it is unimaginable riches, for the losers, another week to wait for the bones to fall. But there is only one real winner: The Company, which plays the city's fragile expectations with callous ease. When a group of math students begins looking at the mind-numbing probabilities, they slowly uncover the sinister realities behind the mania. The Company is using nymphomation, an evolutionary process that has the power to take over the city's dreams. "THE FACE" called this "a scarily plausible vision of biorobotic advertisements and burger chain-sponsored police forces."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552999067
• ISBN-13: 978-0552999069
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,393,510 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.