Manchester UK: Ringpull (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, an urban noir thriller set in the near cyberfuture - an immense cloud of pollen has descended on a "remixed and futuristic Manchester" and people are literally sneezing themselves to death. Noon's first novel "Vurt" won the Arthur C. Clark Award and the John W. Campbell award for best new science fiction writer. 327 pp. ISBN: 1-898051119.