Game Cat – the maestro, the near mythical being who knows and shares the inside info in his "Game Cat" periodical.The Thing From Outer Space – a creature from the Vurt-world.Mandy – the newest addition to the Stash Riders.Bridget – shadowgirl, fellow Stash Rider, Beetle's lover, and powerful psychic.Beetle – the driver, muscle, and unofficial leader of the Stash Riders.Scribble – the protagonist and first-person narrator.From that point on, Scribble is on a mission to find a rare and contraband Curious Yellow feather so that he might find his sister. Out of that trip comes an amorphous semi-sentient blob which Mandy, a fellow Stash Rider, nicknames "The Thing from Outer Space". 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 take a shared trip into a vurt called English Voodoo, but upon awakening Scribble finds his sister has disappeared. 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 Desdemona. Clarke Award and was later listed in The Best Novels of the Nineties. The debut novel for both Noon and small publishing house Ringpull, it went on to win the 1994 Arthur C. Vurt is a 1993 science fiction novel written by British author Jeff Noon. Pollen is a much more tangled book, more fertile, a very overgrown, edge-of-wilderness narrative.Print (paperback and hardback), audiobook Things changed for my second novel, Pollen: by then I had really discovered the melancholic joys of house and techno music, and I think the novel reflects that change. While working on Pollen, he often listened to ‘Dream of a 100 Nations’ album by Transglobal Underground on repeat. Noon is said to take his inspiration from music. When concerning the virtual world, some references to Greek mythology are noticeable, including Persephone and Demeter, the river Styx and Charon, and Hades (portrayed by the character John Barleycorn). Pollen is the sequel to Vurt and concerns the ongoing struggle between the real world and the virtual world. Pollen is a 1995 science fiction novel written by British author Jeff Noon.
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