Moon Over Brendle
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年5月12日
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- ¥1,700
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- 予約注文
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- ¥1,700
発行者による作品情報
Magical contemporary fantasy meets fantastical memoir in the new novel from a cult favourite, Jeff Noon.
The Dust tells the story…
1968, Lancashire: It is Joe Sutter’s last summer before going to secondary school. His world is like ours but beyond and beside what we know is Greot; a vast swirling rainbow of many-coloured dust. It settles on the dead, it swathes cities and fields. Joe is one of the few who have the gift of always being able to see it. But no one knows what Greot is. Is it the trillion-eyed god? The history of everything told grain-by-grain? Prophecy? The magic of creativity?
Joe can’t know; all he wants to do is draw comics and listen to music. Then one day, after climbing up to the ancient tower on Brendle hill, he meets an old writer of pulp SF books who is determined to pass on the power and joy of telling stories. And everything changes.
Decades later Joe is a successful SF novelist, and the time has come to tell his story, not only of how he became a writer but also how the secrets of the dust were revealed to him, one grain at a time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Noon (The Chronicles of Ludwich) offers few surprises in this mild coming-of-age fantasy recounting what led narrator Joe Sutter to a future as a science fiction writer. In an alternate 1968 England, Joe is among the very few able to perceive Greot, a mystical multicolored dust the exact nature of which is mysterious, but which is considered by some to enable access to people's secret desires. An aimless teen, Joe makes little use of his abilities to interface with dust, but finds new direction after befriending G.K. Holbrook, an elderly author of dozens of SF novels. Holbrook is also able to perceive Greot, and mentors Joe on life and writing. Meanwhile, in a gentle mystery, Joe encounters in Holbrook's home a ghostly girl only he can see and sets out to identify her. A preface discloses that the adult Joe has published over 20 books, leaving little suspense about whether the life lessons Holbrook imparts to him will take, and other developments are similarly telegraphed. Greot inevitably calls to mind Philip Pullman's similar Dust, but Noon's worldbuilding is far hazier. This is best suited for the author's diehard fans.
