Pixel Juice
Jeff Noon, the author of Vurt, gathers fifty short stories that push science fiction into wild, fragmented territory. Set largely in a surreal version of Manchester, the pieces mix street life, music, drugs, and technology into something closer to prose poetry than traditional plot. Talking dust, living advertisements, gene-spliced creatures, and broken futures crowd the pages. Some stories are only a paragraph long, others read like remixes of one another. Noon treats language itself as material to cut up and reassemble. The collection is restless and strange, a showcase of an author who never wanted to write the same kind of story twice.
What you might want to know about Pixel Juice
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A collection of short, experimental science fiction stories set in a strange, drug-soaked version of Manchester and beyond.
Yes. Margaret Atwood included it among the weird, twisty tales she recommended in a Goodreads feature.
Pixel Juice was written by Jeff Noon, published in 1998 by Doubleday.
Pixel Juice is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Pixel Juice takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Pixel Juice is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.