Steve Aylett

A multidimensional conspiracy adventure of competing psychic groups battling to take revenge.

Shamanspace

Bigot Hall is the nightmare home of a family most people would rather forget - but which Steve Aylett chooses to celebrate. Uncle Burst's belief that his face is made of pasta is one of the milder notions with which he regales the family as it gathers for breakfast. Uncle Snapper is confined to a treehouse because of the uncontrollable urges he feels once his gun is loaded. Uncle Blute has drowned in the lake at the wheel of his Morris Traveller where he remails perfectly preserved, listening to classical music on the car radio. The grandmother, unaccountably known as Nanny Jack, refuses all efforts to bury her and strikes terror into her relatives' hearts as she abandons yet another final resting place to stalk through the hall at night. Through this happy breed strolls a nameless anti-hero known only as 'laughing boy' who, when not kidnapped by clowns or puzzling out the fossilised family tree, is passionately in love with his beautiful, spaced-out sister, Adrienne.

A Gothic Childhood

Bigot Hall

Lint

Ed Brubaker

Brian K. Vaughan

Mark Schultz

Tom Strong (Book 5) (Tom Strong)

All four of Steve Aylett's "Accomplice" books in one volume, revised, with a new Preface and an intro by Michael Moorcock. Starburst Magazine has called the books "a hugely impressive example of outrageous literary wit and uncommon good sense, demonstrating once more that Aylett is the coolest writer alive today." SFX has called them "Bizarre, innovative and utterly original." Collecting the titles Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland and Karloff's Circus, THE COMPLETE ACCOMPLICE follows the simple Barny and his friends through the intertwisted power manipulations of Accomplice, a zone where hell's defected demons discover they can never match or out-do humanity when it comes to spectacular dishonesty and evasion. "Something this rapid shouldn't be so intoxicating or so dense with ideas. It's a roaring, groaning perpetual motion machine decked out as a fun fair attraction. Read it and you'll need resuscitating" - 3: AM

The Complete Accomplice

This parody of a future driven by cyber-technology begins with Dante Cubit and the Entropy Kid attempting a bank raid in Beerlight. Moving from real world to virtual reality, we follow the progress of Dante in his efforts to steal the last book by street philosopher extraordinaire, Eddie Gamete.

Slaughtermatic

"There was also a problem with the first edition of Rigor Mortis. The biographical notes on the back cover-- with the by now inevitable photo of Lint kissing a tortoise-- stated that Lint had died in 1972. The media, poised to praise him after his death, sprang in with lamentations that he had been tragically neglected by commercial enterprise and that it was baffling that his artistic genius had not been more appreciated. Their bitter embarrassment upon learning that he was still alive and open to their patronage drove a bigger wedge than ever between the media and Lint-- they had no recourse but to pretend he did not exist at all. 'So in terms of money, publicity and ease of progress,' Lint observed, 'all remains the same.'" Jeff Lint was author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century. He transcended genre in classics such as Jelly Result and The Stupid Conversation, becoming a cult figure and pariah. Like his contemporary Philip K. Dick, he was blithely ahead of his time. Aylett follows Lint through his Beat days; his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia and resentment; his disastrous scripts for Star Trek and Patton; the controversies of The Caterer comic and the scariest kids' cartoon ever aired; and his belated Hollywood success in the 1990s. It was a career haunted by death, including the undetected death of his agent, the suspicious death of his rival Herzog, and the unshakable "Lint is dead" rumors, which persisted even after his death.

The Incredible Career of Cult Author Jeff Lint

Featuring some stories set in Beerlight, this is an awe-inspiring, mind scrambling collection of fiction from one of the UK¿s most exciting new writers. Aylett has been feted by Michael Moorcock, The Face, iD, The Standard, The Independent, The Guardian, SFX and Starburst. With these stories it is easy to see why. Steve Aylett¿s is a unique imagination. This UK edition includes new stories not included in the US edition.

Toxicology

Accomplice is the Wonderland of a sick Alice. In this self -contained, less than comfortable city the surreal and the nightmarish is everyday. This a world of casual, accepted insanity. Only the unique imagination of Steve Aylett, author of the acclaimed SLAUGHTERMATIC, could have created the world of Accomplice; a world that fantasy and SF fans alike can really get their teeth into.

Only an Alligator

Private detective Taffy Atom and his piscine sidekick, Jed Helms, make their way through the nightmarish, bizarre underworld of Beerlight in pursuit of an odd gang of criminals responsible for pilfering the brain of Time magazine's Man of the Century. Original.

Atom

True creativity, the making of a thing which has not been in the world previously, is originality by definition. But while many claim to crave originality, they feel an obscure revulsion when confronted with it. The really new is uncomfortable and disturbing. Repetition of the familiar is preferred. The hailing of old ideas as original lowers the standard for invention and robs most creative people of the drive to do anything interesting, let alone seek out the universe of originality which is waiting, drumming its fingers, wondering why nobody calls. This is a book for all those who care not for the fashionable simulacra of the media creative, but for an understanding of the hard road to true originality. Part manual, part history of ideas, part manifesto – this a unique experimental journey around the outer limits of our culture. It debunks myths, contradicts familiar shiboleths and wages war on cliché and platitude as it has never been waged before. A rallying cry and disruptive book for those bored with merely thinking outside the box.

Heart of the Original

In the constant apocalypse nobody cares if your skull is made of wood or your friends are flying ants. Corrosive phantoms are two-a-penny in such a high-res environment. Minotaur Babs improves the shining hour by snogging horses and has a style pedal attached to his arm so he can punch people in the manner of various celebrities. A basement of whispering apes is the source of all wisdom. Bob is propelled through a hull door with only a parachute between him and the slamming palm of god. Placid vampires suggest shapeless and impractical management policies. But how much of the narrator's vortical tale is designed to annoy Eddie and waste his time?A volley of poetic stand-up, this intense splurge contains some of the most unnerving excuses in print, all a-scramble with phosphene electricity and casual resentment. You will emerge from this revised edition glowing like a dashboard saint.

The Inflatable Volunteer

Steve Aylett has been described as "utterly original" (SFX), "the most original voice in the literary scene" (Michael Moorcock), "an unstoppable master of space and time" (Asimov's) and "the coolest writer alive today" (Starburst). SMITHEREENS collects 19 stories including 'The Man Whose Head Expanded', the prophetic 'Download Syndrome', 'The Burnished Adventures of Injury Mouse', the full text of 'Voyage of the Iguana', the last ever Beerlight story 'Specter's Way', 'Horoscope', and the closest thing Aylett has ever written to a traditional SF story, 'Bossanova' (featuring a robot and two spaceships!) There are also animal-attack-while-writing reminiscences in 'Evernemesi' and top-of-the-line declarative bitterness in 'On Reading New Books'. Snails, whales and cortical drills. Aylett's last collection. "clearly a phenomenal talent." - Trashotron "Aylett has made a career out of redefining the boundaries of science fiction - and sanity." - Barnes & Noble Spotlight Feature

Smithereens

Mind-melting surreal satire described by Alan Moore as a new dimension of poetic genius.

Hyperthick

'Savage talked about his life as a re-offender. How could someone be offended by the same thing twice? Was nothing learnt?' Beerlight, the city of all of our futures, is not a safe place. Weaponry, rather than fast cars or designer clothes, is the ultimate status symbol. The populace is dedicated to law-breaking, politically incorrect views and hurling abuse and hand grenades at each other. Combining elements of surrealism, film noir and punk rock ethos, Aylett creates a darkly comic landscape that's a cross between a Tarantino film and a Bosch painting, where murder is the ultimate expression of art. The cast of hoodlums includes burglar extraordinaire Billy Panacea, conman-cum-lawyer Harpoon Specter and other fun-loving felons who hang out at the Delayed Reaction Bar on Valentine Street reading the Parole Violators Bugle.

The Crime Studio

True creativity, the making of a thing which has not been in the world previously, is originality by definition. But while many claim to crave originality, they feel an obscure revulsion when confronted with it. The really new is uncomfortable and disturbing. Repetition of the familiar is preferred. The hailing of old ideas as original lowers the standard for invention and robs most creative people of the drive to do anything interesting, let alone seek out the universe of originality which is waiting, drumming its fingers, wondering why nobody calls. This is a book for all those who care not for the fashionable simulacra of the media creative, but for an understanding of the hard road to true originality. Part manual, part history of ideas, part manifesto - this a unique experimental journey around the outer limits of our culture. It debunks myths, contradicts familiar shiboleths and wages war on clich� and platitude as it has never been waged before. A rallying cry and disruptive book for those bored with merely thinking outside the box.

Originality, Creativity, Individuality

Jeremy C. Shipp

Bradley Sands

There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now. The Bizarro Starter Kit features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre: Ray Fracalossy, Jeremy C. Shipp, Jordan Krall, Mykle Hansen, Andersen Prunty, Eckhard Gerdes, Bradley Sands, Steve Aylett, Christian TeBordo, and Tony Rauch.

An Introduction to the Bizarro Genre

The Bizarro Starter Kit

This book is a fourth trip to Accomplice—the Wonderland of a sick Alice. As an era of Accomplice history comes to a close, the Circus of the Heart’s Shell transforms the town square into a venue for hellish clowning. Sweeney’s forces are closing in on Barny from several directions. Will Fang be reunited with his zombie family? Will Gregor survive a boxing match with the slob demon? Damnation—it takes as long as it takes.

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