{"product_id":"vurt-by-jeff-noon","title":"'Vurt' by Jeff Noon","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"473\"\u003eFirst published in 1993, \u003cem data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"151\"\u003eVurt\u003c\/em\u003e is a cult cyberpunk novel from the UK’s stranger edge of the genre.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"473\"\u003eSet in a hallucinatory Manchester where reality fractures through illicit feathers — gateways to shared dreamworlds — the novel follows Scribble and his crew as they move between bodies, identities, and states of consciousness that refuse to stay fixed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"475\" data-end=\"777\"\u003eJeff Noon’s writing is elastic, surreal, and deeply local: part rave culture, part myth, part proto-virtual reality. Long before VR became a corporate promise, \u003cem data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"641\"\u003eVurt\u003c\/em\u003e imagined digital immersion as something feral; like where desire, technology, and the body bleed into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"959\"\u003eA foundational text of British cyberpunk and experimental sci-fi, \u003cem data-start=\"845\" data-end=\"851\"\u003eVurt\u003c\/em\u003e sits somewhere between William Gibson, Ballardian unreality, and the anarchic spirit of the early internet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43445937700947,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/b80e7ef8-fe8e-4d3d-82cf-c46a2c29661c.jpg?v=1768886351","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/vurt-by-jeff-noon","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}