"Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester's housing estates: eccentric, surreal and ready to take everything to its most absurd conclusion . . . without warning, his writing can swing from the conventions of science fiction into a description that owes more to poetry than prose . . . What anchors his free-wheeling imagination is the grounding of Noon's stories in Manchester's grainy streets. While his ideas take flight, the background is a morose constant, his psychedelic strangeness tempered by the steady drizzle on grey streets . . . In Noon's stories, the cocktail of alienation, narcotics and gadgetry fizzes with energy"

The Times

"Pixel Juice is a fantastic kaleidoscope of a book, demonstrating the wide range of talents of Noon's vision and talents, encompassing a variety of styles, genres and voices. It is an excellent introduction to the surreal, confusing world of Jeff Noon, and paradoxically his best work yet"

Independent on Sunday

"When words don't exist to explain his visions, he is not afraid to make them up, and he is a master of the acronym . . . updating William Burroughs's cut-up technique with the sensibilities of contemporary music producers and remixers, Noon takes his own stories and reworks them into inventive variations on a theme . . . well aware that the remix is a valid and burgeoning art form, he is not afraid to name check his idols . . ."

Independent on Sunday

"Jeff Noon is an author who has it all. He satisfies the appetite of the underground with the cyber-club style of bestsellers like Vurt, as well as wining serious writing awards and the praise of critics . . . Noon's gift is to maintain our belief that we stand on the brink of a brave new world. It is an imagination worth getting involved with"

Edge

"Shaggy dog stories in cyberspace . . . sparky and loopy, laced with puns and black wit"

Mail on Sunday

"Noon is a fiercely urban writer. His pieces have a rich colloquial flow . . . [He] reflects the energy of the rave generation: the hammer and twist of the music, the language of the computer games addict and the buzz of technology"

Victoria Moore, New Statesman

"This guy's so cool it hurts. We don't know what he's on, but can we have some?"

Minx

"Beautifully written. Noon's stories slip between the lurid and the deranged, bouncing the reader off the walls of a psyche as disturbed as it is insightful...Perhaps his best work to date"

Big Issue

"In his work, Noon ambitiously, constantly and effectively stretches the limits of language by creating completely innovative and new ways of telling stories, not just in terms of ideas but in terms of the words themselves . . . all of [the stories] are like nothing you'll read by anyone else. Their setting is the future looking back on the future, providing scope for madness, music and satire. And just because they're all separated by a blank page and a title, don't think they're not threaded together in a weird way I don't completely understand to create what is a truly remarkable whole . . . Music, language and Manchester provide the raw material, and it is through his passionate relationship with these elements, and the struggle to control their separate "dance". that Jeff Noon finds his artistic voice. There is, without a doubt, addiction in this guy's work; a dependence, escape and intimacy that is both frightening and joyous"

City Life

"A startling, often utterly brilliant book, Pixel Juice is not for the faint-hearted, traditionalist reader"

Freelance Informer

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