ISBN 1-898051-11-9 (UK hbk)

"In a strange re-mixed future Manchester a cloud of pollen descends -- a new strain, each tiny grain a murderer. Within days the streets of the city are overgrown with vicious blooms as the fiercest hay fever epidemic of all time takes hold. People are sneezing themselves to death and the pollen count is racing towards 2,000. A small percentage of the population are immune to the fever. Two of them -- shadow-cop Sibyl Jones and her wayward daughter Boda -- are on separate paths into the dark place from where the pollen originates. What they find there will change their lives forever". [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1995]

"This is an immersion into another reality, surreal and sublime. Unlike anything else you've ever read. I found myself composing Vurt songs and sayings, and thinking feathery thoughts. Ya-ya. Then there's the humour... and the Knowledge. Not much more to say except READ IT... do it now, before it spreads." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Highly recommended.

Bianca's Bookcase
(brief book reviews of Vurt and Pollen at Bianca's Smut Shack)

Hear Pollen Read by Jeff Noon
(radio readings on The Mark Radcliffe Show, Radio One, UK)

Jeff Noon Answers Questions
(live radio session... 3 November 1995)

Pollen
(book review by N.Jay Babcock)

Pollen by Jeff Noon
(itinerary... reading tour, Dillons, Manchester, 7 November 1995... and Waterstones, London, 9 November 1995)

Ringpull
(publishers of Pollen ... e-mail: up@ringpull.demon.co.uk)

State 51
(book review of Pollen )