"I remember my sharp delight, in 1993 on first discovering Vurt 's hallucinogenic VR-induced Manchester. It instantly became one of my favourite examples of new directions in science fiction, and remains so these decades later!" - William Gibson , author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral "An intense, blistering story about the price of knowledge, full of dreamers and borderlands." - Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls "Passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling." - The Times "A gripping piece of speculative fiction." - The Guardian "Refreshing, disturbing and original." - The Independent "An audacious fantasia, exhibiting a narrative daring and command few new writers can boast, sweeping the reader along as though it were a Vurt feather-trip itself." - Publishers Weekly "Subversive, transgressive. It gets under your skin like Cronenberg.

" - Chuck Wendig "These books, the best books, discover the essential human notes of their times, and they ring so strongly down the decades that we remember them still." - Warren Ellis , author of Transmetropolitan "Vivid, restless, street-writing, neon-noir, ranging widely through fantasies and rationalities. An utterly unique, quite brilliant piece of writing." - Adam Roberts, author of Jack Glass " Vurt was a better Philip K. Dick novel than most of Dick's own books" - Richard Kadrey.