false<![CDATA[Pollen]]>921269<I>Pollen</I> is the sequel to <I>Vurt</I> (winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award), and both are concerned with a world in which dreams, drug-induced hallucination and reality become completely intermingled. In this volume, the dream world unleashes a pollen that threatens to cause people in the real world to sneeze to death. <p> But no review can do Noon's writing justice: it's a phantasmagoric combination of the more imaginative science fiction masters, such as Phillip K. Dick, genres such as cyberpunk and pulp fiction, and drug culture.910696book1995Pollentotal:415|5:109|4:165|3:118|2:19|1:4|41516015311930falsefalseSat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009Fri Jan 09 12:17:24 -0800 2009Mon Jan 12 08:17:19 -0800 2009 This book deserves more than 3 stars but less than 4... 3 and a half. The first 300 pages were very whi...more...]]>
30falsefalseSat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Fri Nov 09 04:54:33 -0800 2007Wed Jan 02 09:30:20 -0800 2008 His future is loud and crazy and colorful and horny. And that's good. And he introduces a lot of interesting concepts. And to a large degree, he works within these concepts. However, things are so . . . just, weir...more...]]>
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vurt applies here: like irvine welsh's marabou stork nightmares it's a book that's fraught with debauchery and taboo, and not in a titillating way. incest, bestiality and necrophilia are discussed with a sort of passing abandon on...more...]]>
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Pollen wasn't Vurt. I have to say that I was disappointed in it. Sibyl was an incredibly frustrating protagonist; though, admittedly, she should have been, being a mother, a Shadowcop and a Dodo. Still. Noon's manipulation of myth just wasn't as organic as it might've been, especially cons...more...]]>
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