Pollen - Hardcover

Noon, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517599902 ISBN 13: 9780517599907

Publisher: Crown Pub, 1996

Synopsis

After receiving a kiss from a mysterious girl passenger, Manchester taxi driver Coyote is found dead, a strange bouquet of flowers sprouting from his throat, unleashing a deadly plague of hay fever on the city. By the author of Vurt. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

Review:

Pollen is the sequel to Vurt (winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award), and both are concerned with a world in which dreams, drug-induced hallucination and reality become completely intermingled. In this volume, the dream world unleashes a pollen that threatens to cause people in the real world to sneeze to death.

But no review can do Noon's writing justice: it's a phantasmagoric combination of the more imaginative science fiction masters, such as Phillip K. Dick, genres such as cyberpunk and pulp fiction, and drug culture.

Review:

This innovative volume offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world. The path-breaking introduction by Davidson and Martin unpacks this complex domain by framing urban politics in three ways: occurring within the city, as a setting for other urban processes, and as a medium for contestation and resolution.  Within each section the contributors trouble these categories and demonstrate how the reach of urban politics exceeds the city through technological, social, cultural and political economy avenues of transition and mobility. Drawing upon Ranciere’s distinction between policing and politics as a fruitful avenue for identifying politics that promote social change rather than enforce social norms, Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction.

 

(Setha M. Low 2013-09-01)

'A critical analysis of power and politics is essential to an understanding of contemporary urbanism. Informative and challenging, clear and sophisticated, Urban Politics: Critical Approaches encourages readers to grapple with the great diversity of analytical lenses that frame urban political research through detailed, engaging case studies. It provides an introduction to cutting-edge research that will be valued both by those new to the field and those intent on keeping up with its current debates.'

 

 

(Eugene McCann 2013-09-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0517599902
• ISBN 13: 9780517599907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335