Nymphomation

Manchester, 1999. The AnnoDomino Company is given a twelve-month trial to run a lottery in the city, with the promise of a national rollout if it works. Players buy dominoes whose numbers keep shifting until the weekly draw is announced on television, while blurbflies fill the air calling out advertisements.

A small group sets out to crack the secrets of the game and of the mysterious figure who runs it, known only as Mr Million. Published after Vurt, Pollen and Automated Alice, it is set before Vurt and lays down much of the mythology behind Jeff Noon's earlier Manchester novels.