What to say about "Noise"...without sounding like the cult trying to recruit a new member... Fascinating. Noise properly introduced me to Tsutomu Nihei, even though I had heard of Blame! before reading it. I've re-read it on several occasions, which even surprises me. I'm not a horror guy, but it goes well with sci-fi. Like bourbon and a cigar perfect fit. Nihei's style is the imagined result of Clive Barker and H.R. Giger being drinking buddies, without the fetishy sexual undertones. There's an alien, shadowy, unnatural feel to the world he creates, something so far beyond dystopian that I'm notsure there's a word to describe it. It's something so foreboding and different that it just feels WRONG, but at the same time it tickles your sense of adventure and you really want to grab your ruck and explore it.

Definite must read.