Did Vurt win any awards?

Yes. Vurt won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994, presented for the best science fiction novel published in the UK in 1993. It was Jeff Noon's first novel.

Is Vurt part of a series, and what should I read next?

Vurt opens Jeff Noon's Vurt sequence, four novels set in different versions of a near-future Manchester. It is followed by Pollen (1995), then Automated Alice (1996) and Nymphomation (1997).

In an alternate, near-future Manchester, England, where people may be part dog, shadow, robot or Vurt, and where colour-coded feathers carry users into a shared dream world. Much of the search for Curious Yellow runs through the city's clubs and the run-down district of Bottletown.

Vurt

Cyberpunk Science Fiction

Pages: 347
Published: 1993
Language: English

Synopsis

In a rain-soaked, near-future Manchester, people trip on Vurt: colour-coded feathers that drop whoever sucks them into a shared dream world. Blue feathers are safe; others are pornographic, contraband or deadly. Scribble, a young member of a small gang called the Stash Riders, has lost his sister Desdemona. After a shared trip into a feather called English Voodoo, she stayed behind in the Vurt, and a strange creature from the dream world, nicknamed the Thing from Outer Space, came back in her place.

To get her back, Scribble needs Curious Yellow, a rare and forbidden feather that may not exist at all. With Beetle at the wheel, the shadowgirl Bridget and new recruit Mandy beside him, he goes searching through the city's clubs, dealers and the run-down district of Bottletown, while cops and shadowcops close in.

Narrated by Scribble, Vurt was Jeff Noon's first novel, published by Ringpull in 1993. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994 and is followed by Pollen.