• Pollen

  • By: Jeff Noon
  • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
  • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (39 ratings)

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Pollen

By: Jeff Noon
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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Publisher's summary

The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first. Soon people are sneezing and dying all over Manchester. Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy – but even a happy death can be a murder. As exotic blooms begin to flower all over the city, the pollen count is racing towards 2000 and Sybil is running out of time.

Jeff Noon was born in Manchester in 1957. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His first novel, Vurt, was published in 1993 and went on to win critical acclaim and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He went on to write Pollen, set in the same world as Vurt, and many other novels including Automated Alice, Pixel Juice and Needle in the Groove. His latest novel is Channel SK1N. You can find out more about Jeff and his books at www.metamorphiction.com.

©2013 Jeff Noon (P)2013 Audible Ltd

Critic reviews

“Britain’s first star of cyberpunk” (Guardian)
“Great Fun. Read it” (Mail on Sunday)

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Interesting, but rambling.

This didn’t really feel like a sequel to Vurt, but instead a new story set in the same world. It wasn’t bad, but I felt like it rambled and meandered for a long time, not really going anywhere. The ending was pretty good, but I felt like it could have been a lot sooner.

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A very imaginative sequel.

This is a very imaginative sequel... focusing on a very different slice of society within the world Jeff Noon created in VURT. In doing so, Noon avoids the classic option; this is not a continuation of the lives of the characters from the first book. There is a very different problem... And it needs to be solved by very different people. The previous cast of characters are not completely ignored... but, this is not their story.

One caveat... the sex scenes, while not explicit or gratuitous, are very direct.

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Not a sci-fi but a fantasy

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Perversions aside, this book would have been better classified as a YA novel rather than a science fiction work. There wasn't an ounce of science. The fantasy realm felt very juvenile.

What was most disappointing about Jeff Noon’s story?

The Vurt world was un-fascinating. The lust-infused world fell flat.

What about Maggie Mash’s performance did you like?

She was all-around good.

Was Pollen worth the listening time?

Nope. difficult to finish as I lost interest in the Alice-In-Wonderland parallel universe

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