The Body Library
  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857666734
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $38.00

The Body Library

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Jeff Noon returns with a sequel to the acclaimed A Man of Shadows, taking his hapless investigator into a city where reality is contaminated by the imagination of its citizens

Jeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless investigator John Nyquist into a city where reality is contaminated by the imagination of its citizens

In a city dissolving into an infected sprawl of ideas, where words come to life and reality is contaminated by stories, John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body… The dead man’s impossible whispers plunge him into a murder investigation like no other. Clues point him deeper into an unfolding story infesting its participants as reality blurs between place and genre.
 
Only one man can hope to put it all back together into some kind of order, enough that lives can be saved… That man is Nyquist, and he is lost.

File Under: Science Fiction
  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857666734
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon trained in the visual arts and drama and was active on the post-punk music scene before becoming a playwright, and then a novelist. Most recently publishing a crime novel, Slow Motion Ghosts, his other novels include Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove, Falling Out of Cars, Channel SK1N, Mappalujo (with Steve Beard), A Man of Shadows, and the The Body Library. He has also published two collections of short fiction, Pixel Juice and Cobralingus. He lives in Brighton.

Also by Jeff Noon

Vurt
Ludluda
Gogmagog
Within Without
House with No Doors
Creeping Jenny
A Man of Shadows
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Praise for The Body Library

PRAISE FOR A MAN OF SHADOWS
"This superb novel of light, glass and blood proves again that Jeff Noon is one of our few true visionaries."
- Warren Ellis

"A disturbing and bizarre journey by one of the great masters of weird fiction."
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time

"Every Jeff Noon novel is a wonderful, precious thing. These are bad times, and we need him more than ever."
- Dave Hutchinson, British Science Fiction Association Award-winning author of the Europe series

Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 1994 for Vurt, listed in Lesher's Best Novels of The Nineties, winner of the 1995 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

"Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester's housing estates: eccentric, surreal, and ready to take everything to its most absurd conclusion. In Noon's stories the cocktail of alienation, narcotics and gadgetry fizzes with energy."
- The Times

"To say that Jeff Noon is a talented author is like saying that Neil Armstrong has travelled a bit."
- Starburst magazine

"Noon is a fiercely urban writer. [He] reflects the energy of the rave generation: the hammer and twist of the music, the language of the computer games addict and the buzz of technology."
- New Statesman

"Noon's blend of quirky ideas, striking prose and imaginative characterisations establishes him as one of the most original voices in imaginative fiction."
- Booklist