Synopses & Reviews
Vurt is a feather a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colors: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows the feathers from which there is no escape.
The beautiful young Desdemona is trapped in Curious Yellow, the ultimate Metavurt, a feather few have ever seen and fewer still have dared ingest. Her brother Scribble will risk everything to rescue his beloved sister. Helped by his gang, the Stash Riders, hindered by shadowcops, robos, rock and roll dogmen, and his own dread, Scribble searches along the edges of civilization for a feather that, if it exists at all, must be bought with the one thing no sane person would willingly give.
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"Humorous, horrific, and wildly original, Vurt is an imaginative triumph." Library Journal
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"Surreal." New York Times
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"The mainstreaming of cyberpunk." New Yorker
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"Thirteen years after its publication, Vurt is still a vibrant reading experience. While some speculative fiction dates horribly (how come the author thought of all of these cool gadgets, but not a cell phone or an mp3 player?), others endure because their authors refuse to wallow in mere genre theatrics and cliché. Vurt is as much a novel of raw youth and the pain of experience as it is a head trip; it's a techno-bildungsroman." Gerry Donaghy, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)
Synopsis
Vurt is a feather--a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colors: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows--the feathers from which there is no escape. The beautiful young Desdemona is trapped in Curious Yellow, the ultimate Metavurt, a feather few have ever seen and fewer still have dared ingest. Her brother Scribble will risk everything to rescue his beloved sister. Helped by his gang, the Stash Riders, hindered by shadowcops, robos, rock and roll dogmen, and his own dread, Scribble searches along the edges of civilization for a feather that, if it exists at all, must be bought with the one thing no sane person would willingly give.