Jeff Noon
Jeff Noon (* 1957 in Droylsden , England ) is a British writer , playwright, painter and musician . He is best known for his science fiction novels.
Life
Jeff Noon worked in bookstores before overnight as the author of the novel yellow (Engl. Vurt ) became famous, the enthusiastic criticism as the Clockwork Orange of the nineties celebrated. The Guardian described him as "a figure with the greatest promises in British science fiction", but now he is "if not forgotten, someone who never got the recognition that seemed inevitable". His novel Gelb has been translated into fifteen languages. Noon worked as a painter, musician and writer. He initiated several online art projects, among other things he published only 140 characters long micro-short stories on Twitter , which he called microspores . Jeff Noon now lives in Brighton .
Works
Novels
- Vurt (German yellow , ISBN 3-442-44449-7 , ISBN 3-442-54007-0 )
- Pollen (German pollen , ISBN 3-442-44408-X , ISBN 3-442-54031-3 )
- Automated Alice (German Alice in Automatenland , ISBN 3-442-54065-8 )
- Nymphomation
- Needle in the groove
- Falling Out Of Cars
Plays
- Woundings
- Vurt - the theater remix
- Alphabox
- Somewhere the Shadow
- The Modernists
Non-fiction
- Cobralingus
Short stories
- Remixing the Future ( Dubchester Kiss )
- Ultra Kid and Catgirl
- Artificially Induced Dub Syndrome
- The Call of the Weird
- Tweedles
- The Shoppers
- Before it Disappears
- DJNA
- Blurbs
- Solace
- Latitude 52
- Homo karaoke
- Oblivion Girls
- Blackley, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, Saturn
Collected short stories
- Pixel Juice (German pixel salad , ISBN 3-442-54118-2 )
Awards
- 1994: Arthur C. Clarke Award
Web links
- Literature by and about Jeff Noon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jeff Noon in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Jeff Noon at Open Library
- 217 Babel Street - a literary project in which Jeff Noon also participates
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sam Leith: Jeff Noon: a life in writing. In: The Guardian. April 20, 2013, accessed December 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Jeff Noon. In: De: Bug Magazin. July 19, 2000, accessed December 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Cobralingus ( English ) isfdb.org. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^ The Arthur C. Clarke Award - 1994 Winner ( English ) clarkeaward.com. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noon, Jeff |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer, playwright, painter and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Droylsden , England |