The books in this room could not be read, not a second time.
I chose another volume from the shelf. Again, there was no title to the book, and even more of the pages had words missing from them. Some of the pages were almost completely blank.
'Please be careful,' said the attendant.
I turned to a page where most of the words were still present, and then started to read.
'Hence the potency of Bowie's impact on England: the marriage of alien and dandy giving birth to the ultimate outsider figure for the modern age, the queer messiah from space…'

An excerpt from Jeff Noon's latest novel, Falling Out of Cars.

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