Nymphomation - Couverture souple

Noon, Jeff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552144797 ISBN 13 : 9780552144797

Editeur : Corgi Books, 1998

Synopsis

The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. Product, product, product. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. PLAY TO WIN, PLAY TO WIN. Players purchase a handful of dominoes and every Friday night the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. Every Friday night, Manchester stills as the bones tumble into a winning combination, the population hooked on this rampant dream. For the winner, it is unimaginable riches, for the loser another week to wait for the bones to fall again. But there is only one real winner, The Company, who plays the city's fragile expectations with callous ease. But a group of mathematics students are looking at the odds, at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, and searching for the hidden mysteries behind the game. They watch the city at work and at dangerous play and slowly uncover the sinister realities behind the mania. The Company is devouring Manchester - it has the nymphomation, the secret knowledge underlying the game's mechanics, by which information can make love to itself, producing newer more powerful

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeff Noon is the author of six acclaimed novels, Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove and Falling Out of Cars, and two collections of short fictions, Pixel Juice and Cobralingus. He lives in Brighton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552144797
• ISBN 13: 9780552144797
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible