28 June, 2001: Vurt
I missed reading Vurt when author Jeff Noon was briefly a science-fiction wunderkind. Rather, I didn't miss it. I picked it up in a bookstore, having heard some of the buzz, and read the first chapter. And the first chapter isn't very good, and it is especially not good for reading in a bookstore. But the book improves as it goes along; I'm glad I read it, even if it does swing the pendulum rather more sharply towards literary style over genre substance than even I might have preferred.