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Nymphomation

By Jeff Noon

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| Hardcover | 9780385408127

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The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. Every Friday night the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. For the winner, iContinue

The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. Every Friday night the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. For the winner, it is unimaginable riches, for the losers another week to wait for the bones to fall again. But there is only one real winner, The Company, which plays the city's fragile expectations with callous ease.

A group of mathematics students are looking at the mind-numbing probabilities involved and searching for the hidden mysteries behind the game. They watch the city at work and at dangerous play and slowly uncover the sinister realities behind the mania. The Company is devouring Manchester - it has the nymphomation, an evolutionary process which has the power to take over the city's dreams...

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  • Jeff Noon: Nymphomation

    Chris Mitchell After giving Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland electric shock treatment last year in Automated Alice, Jeff Noon's new novel Nymphomation returns to the near-future Manchester of his first two books, Vurt and Pollen. While Automated A ... (read full critics)

    spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 362 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0385408129
  • ISBN-13: 9780385408127
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Pub date: Oct 09, 1997
  • Also available as: Paperback
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