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Nymphomation (Paperback)

by Jeff Noon (Author)

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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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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

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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: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #800,037 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

By	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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Science (?) Fiction, November 2, 2005

By	Yoshimura "book lover" (Kobe, Japan) - See all my reviews

Nymphomation takes place in a dystopic future version of Manchester, England, where the populace is in thrall to strange new lottery based on dominos. It's a bleak place where anything and everything is corporate-sponsored, including the schools and the cops, and the air is filled with bio-mechanical advert bugs called blurbflies. A group of renegade mathematicians and hackers thinks there's something fishy about the whole domino system and especially the so-called jealousy killings of lottery winners, so they decide to try to break the system. Sounds like a good idea, no? But...

I have really mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it has a really great premise, some cool characters, a interesting and well developed backdrop and a writing style which is very modern, flashy, playful and fun to read, but (and this is a very big 'but') it's just not believable. Noon's trying to write science fiction, and he gets the fiction part really down pat, but he totally fumbles on the science, which makes it almost painful to read at times.

There are all kinds of things that are just inexplicable, (or maybe just badly explained), the main one being the blurbflies and their weird reproductive abilities, but all of the computer and hacking stuff seems like it was written by someone who doesn't have clue about computers and sounds almost magical rather than technological.

So I guess I'd have to give it a C. The writing really is quite fun, but the fakey-ness of all the science bits is just too much.

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

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

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book
Noon's Vurt is one of my all time favorite books. Nymphomation is a prequel of sorts to Vurt, which explains what led to the dreamdrug-world obsessed universe of Vurt.

Published on June 16, 2007 by John Kontos

4.0 out of 5 stars PLAY TO WIN!
After reading Vurt I wanted to know more about the world of dystopian Manchester. Many things are not explicitily explained in Vurt such as Vaz, and the origin of the Vurt... Read more

Published on July 14, 2006 by Michael Donnelly

4.0 out of 5 stars jeff noon is always worthwhile
Noon has the best writing style I've come across in this whole 'cyberpunk' genre (or whatever people are calling it these days). Read more

Published on November 6, 2004 by munkey

1.0 out of 5 stars never read this
This is possibly the WORST book that I have ever read! This phenominally badly written book is packed with obviously out of touch attempts to key into areas of youth culture... Read more

Published on January 10, 2003 by Sam

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book but not as good as Vurt
this was a really good book, i immidiatly picked it up after reading VURT (which in my opinion is the best book ever so read it! Read more

Published on November 19, 2002 by dib5000x

5.0 out of 5 stars PLAY TO WIN: this book tells you how
My god, read this book. Jeff Noon is one of the few science fiction writers out there who is writing on all cylinders. Read more

Published on July 12, 2002 by sebastian hope

5.0 out of 5 stars astonishing.
PLAY TO WIN PLAY TO WIN PLAY TO WIN.

i'd looked at this book - and jeff noon in particular, quite a bit in the bookstores. Read more

Published on November 8, 2001 by writer@repairman.com

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing style, moderate substance!
I found Jeff Noon's "Vurt" to be an extraordinarily exciting head trip through his most phenomenal imagination; I loved it! Read more

Published on June 8, 2001 by Hank Schwartz

5.0 out of 5 stars Vurtually perfect (sorry!)
I never thought maths could be sexy. This is easily the best book from the Vurt series, the literary equivalent of listening to Autechre or Funkstorung, Strange and alien, yet... Read more

Published on September 7, 2000 by 7ape

1.0 out of 5 stars i ride 3 wheeler charge bunk mouth
look to nice ate all my yum. i will be first i will be first on sunday! send to little houses my name in snow balls toodle to yuk my name! Read more

Published on January 29, 2000

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