Jeff Noon has been described, according to Sean Coughlan in a 6 May 2000 interview in The Times (London), as a "cyberpunk, an acid-house novelist, a cult science fiction writer, rave author, and, at different stages, he's been bracketed alongside writers as diverse as Irvine Welsh, J. G. Ballard, and Lewis Carroll." Noon has referred to his own writing as "Avant Pulp" and "Metamorphiction." Resisting easy categorization, Noon's writing is exploratory--constructing strange, alternative realities in a language that emulates the mood and sound of contemporary underground music. Over the course of several novels and short-story collections, Noon has tried to reinvent himself with each new project. Initially labeled a science-fiction writer, Noon fears being pigeonholed and has stated that he does not want to feel constrained by any particular genre or style of writing, telling Bethan Roberts in a 1996 interview with the on-line journal Spike Magazine, "writers don't choose the...