![]() ![]() If you share a feather with a friend, you can have joint experiences in the Vurt alt world. Administered via colour-coded feathers which you suck on, Vurt offers a variety of experiences from legal happy blues and porno pinks to illegal knowledge blacks and the extremely dangerous yellow feathers. It’s a version of the city where the drug of choice is ‘Vurt’. ![]() Jeff Noon’s debut novel had the USP of being set in an alt-Manchester rather than the USA. It’s fair to say that back then, I’d not read anything as weirdly spec-fictional for around a decade – William Gibson’s Neuromancer in the mid 1980s, and before that the 1975 Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Of course I couldn’t find my original paperback, I’m sure I still have it somewhere, so I had to buy a beat up old Ringpull reprint copy. ![]() It was originally published in 1993 by Mancunian small indie press Ringpull, who are no longer in the business. I discovered Vurt in the mid 1990s when Pan published the first mass market paperback (cover above) of this novel after it won the Arthur C Clarke Award in 1994. Meanwhile our ‘V is for’ book this month was a novel I was very happy to re-read. We’re nearing the end of the alphabet in our book group – we haven’t decided yet if we’ll return to the beginning or do something else when we finish. ![]()
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