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JEFF NOON is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He won the Arthur C Clarke Award for Vurt, the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer, a Tinniswood Award for innovation in radio drama and the Mobil prize for playwriting. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His work spans SF and fantasy genres, exploring the ever-changing borderzone between genre fiction and the avant-garde.
A disturbing and bizarre journey by one of the great masters of weird fiction. Clocks and watches form a recurrent motif in this artful, eerie novel that infuses the mystery genre with symbolism and soul. Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester's housing estates Noon is a fiercely urban writer. Noon's blend of quirky ideas, striking prose and imaginative characterisations establishes him as one of the most original voices in imaginative fiction. Let's call him the first of the psychedelic fantasists. Humorous, horrific and wildly original... an imaginative masterpiece. Intriguingly textured, reliably witty and inventive, Noon's whirling purposeful fantasy packs a full whallop. Classic Jeff Noon weirdness with a beautifully crafted mystery at its heart. It's a heady psychedelic mix, packed with literary allusions, which brilliantly explores notions of self-identity, personal awareness and how we fit into our own stories. Rich, inventive and recommended. By writing a novel set in literature itself the author has created a new psychedelic meta-genre as well as a fantastic story that sticks in the mind long after the novel itself is read. An intoxicating and rewarding experience One of our finest writers...Within Without is a tour de force of surrealist SF
