Vurt

Jeff Noon's first four novels, set in a strange, alternate Manchester and sharing characters and settings. In Vurt, people drop into a shared dream world by sucking colour-coded feathers; Pollen continues the struggle between the real world and the Vurt; Automated Alice sends Alice into a future Manchester; and Nymphomation follows a city gripped by a domino lottery. The books were published as Vurt (1993), Pollen (1995), Automated Alice (1996) and Nymphomation (1997), but their own timeline runs Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Vurt, then Pollen.