A l'occasion de la sortie de ces deux romans en epub en anglais (Vurt est également dispo en epub en français ici), une interview de Jeff Noon est en ligne ici.

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reviewer remarked that VURT seems as fresh now as it ever did, so how does it feel to know that its 20th anniversary of publication is next year?
Jeff Noon : Well, of course, it’s difficult to imagine that twenty years have gone by. I mean, how did that happen, right? To me, it seems like only a few years ago that I sat down to write the book. I’m glad that readers still find it fresh, because one of the urges behind Vurt was to really capture that particular time, the rave era, in that particular city, Manchester. So I definitely did not have the future life of the book in my sights. I observed what was happening around me and pushed it through a Science Fiction filter, and captured the results as best I could. Also, the first edition was brought out by a tiny independent publisher, Ringpull Books.

People didn’t really use the internet back then, so it was very difficult for small publishers to reach wide audiences. So I expected the novel to reach a limited number of people, and really I would have been happy enough with that. But then the book won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and that was the start of it finding a larger audience, and indeed a deal with Pan. So I’m eternally grateful to the Award for giving the book a proper chance in the world. Like many a first novel it came out of a weird Venn diagram of influences: Gibson, Ballard, Borges, Lewis Carroll, techno music, dub culture, Mondo 2000, graphic novels, 1970s punk, and everyday life in the North of England in 1993. It’s amazing to think that VURT is still on its journey, still travelling, and still finding new readers.