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ONLY AN ALLIGATOR (ACCOMPLICE BOOK 1) by STEVE AYLETT, 2001 FAIN THE SORCERER by Steve Aylett, 2006-01-01 Tao Te Jinx by Steve Aylett, 2004 The Inflatable Volunteer by Steve Aylett, 1995 Karloff's Circus (Accomplice) by Steve Aylett, 2005-01-13 Smithereens by Steve Aylett, 2010-09-27 POSTSCRIPTS 11 - THE A TO Z OF FANTASTIC FICTION by Paul DiFilippo, Matthew Roski, Kealan Patrick Burke, Mikal Trimm, Dave Hoing, Forrest Aguirre, Steve Aylett, Richard Paul Russo, Eric Schaller, David Barnett, Christopher Harman Postscripts, 2007 Dodgem Logic by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, et all 2010-03-01 GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME comic Issue 1 by Steve Aylett, 2009-01-01 Tom Strong, No. 27; Sept. 2004 by Steve Aylett, 2004

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41. Sffworld.com - Book Voting By Authors - A
    Asimov (editor), Isaac, Asimov (editor), Isaac, Asprin, Robert, Asprin (editor),Robert, Attanasio, AA, Atwood, Margaret, aylett, steve, aylett, steve,  
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42. Arts/Literature/Authors/A/Aylett,_Steve
    Our search portal also gives you the option to conduct a query using our intelligentsearch feature. / Arts / Literature / Authors / A / aylett, steve.  
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    Extractions: Search: Welcome to arts-entertainment-recreation.com, the comprehensive search portal dedicated to the arts. We have located some of the finest art and entertainment resources from across the Web and accumulated them into a single directory. Here you can choose from a wide variety of documents, reviews, articles, and Web sites about your favorite activities. Whether you enjoy film, Broadway shows, television, books, fine art, or travel, there is something here for you. As you peruse the directory, you will notice several categories pertaining to the arts. Feel free to navigate through these categories, from broad art-related topics to specific information on selected subjects. Our search portal also gives you the option to conduct a query using our intelligent search feature. Arts Literature Authors A Aylett, Steve Steve Aylett at the Complete Review

43. Steve Aylett, Atom
    steve aylett, Atom (Phoenix House/Orion Four Walls Eight Windows,2000). British author steve aylett, known for slipstream or  
    http://www.rambles.net/aylett_atom.html
    
    Extractions: British author Steve Aylett, known for "slipstream" or avante-garde SF in five previous novels, has a reputation for outrageousness. Atom , his most recent novel, definitely lives up to expectations. The protagonist, Taffy Atom, is a private detective of an unconventional and eccentric sort with a sidekick who's even weirder: Jed Helms, who has a voraciously vicious human personality somehow grafted onto a souped-up brain in the body of a giant goldfish! The near-future setting, as in Aylett's novel Slaughtermatic , is the city of Beerlight which "sprawls like roadkill." The plot is a bit thin but then the book is only 137 pages long and takes Atom on a mission to trace a missing brain (belonging to Tony Curtis), which vanished the night the City Brain Facility blew up. A motley crew of bizarre gangsters will do anything to see that Atom, his gorgeous, smart and tough girlfriend Madison Drowner, and Jed Helms don't succeed. Reading Aylett is not reading for depth of character, intense emotional subtlety or intricate background descriptions rather, it's like reading a manic anime noir where the imagery dominates stark and startling, with satirically over-the-top metaphors abounding and the pacing lightening-swift, cutting from one scene to the next almost too fast to follow. Yet the language is so clever and witty that the reader is only too happy to go along for the mad car-chase of a ride in order to encounter bits like this: "Industrial gothic was tempered by Bren Shui, the art of exchanging negative energy with the environment through the correct placement of firearms around the house." Laugh-out-loud moments of this sort are to be found on practically every page of

44. Atom By Steve Aylett | PopMatters Book Review
    Atom by steve aylett, review by steve Mueske aylett's imagination is about ascreative as anyone's in the business, and his ideas are fresh and full of  
    http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/a/atom.html
    
    Extractions: e-mail this article Metacyberpunk Is Not Post-Modern Prose E ver since William Gibson's Neuromancer came out in 1984 and scarfed up the three major science fiction awards (Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick), the term "cyberpunk" has proven to be a viable term marketing departments can use to describe any manner of speculative science fiction. Most of these author's books, however, don't come close to Gibson's originality in either substance or form, and Steve Aylett's Atom is no exception. Billed by its publisher (Four Walls Eight Windows) as "metacyberpunk," we are given to believe that this bizarre novel is "sheer mayhem illuminated by wit of the first order, intense violence relieved by startlingly original use of language." I'm not exactly sure what "wit of the first order" is supposed to mean, but if it means a half-baked satire using a host of characters so cliched they become a pastiche of a cliche, a plot so inane and laughable that it barely holds up under scrutiny, and page after page of silliness in the guise of humor, then this book may have hit its mark. Set in a town called Beerlight, where there is so much crime that its denizens pay more attention to the stylishness of a crime than the crime itself, "private defective" (no, that's not a typo) Taffy Atom is hired to track down the whereabouts of a brain (or "squashers" as they are called in this novel) stolen during a raid on the city's Brain Facility. He's aided by a partner, the mysterious Madison Drowner (who makes all the cool gadgets), and a modified sidekick that is a toothy fish. The brain, which turns out to be Kafka's (for a series of silly puns on "Metamorphosis"), was hired by a local crimelord called the Candyman to be stolen by a mobster named Harry Fiasco. Harry Fiasco, though, is one of Eddie Thermidor's boys, and tells his boss that he stole the brain for him. As the brain becomes "misplaced" throughout much of the book, the plot largely hinges around a cast of characters trying to discover who is double-crossing whom and why.

45. Dummyland By Steve Aylett - An Infinity Plus Review
    Dummyland Accomplice Book 3. by steve aylett. Review by John Toon. Elsewherein infinity plus nonfiction - read more reviews of steve aylett's work.  
    http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/dummyland.htm
    
    Extractions: Dummyland : Accomplice Book 3 It's business as usual in Accomplice, Hell's twin town, when a newly made doll escapes from the Church of Automata and runs riot through the streets. Mayor Rudloe, who never has to think up new ways to oppress the public since the public do it for him, tries to pin the blame on the ingenu Barny Juno. The demon lord Sweeney, still keen to eradicate Barny, supposedly his nemesis, sends another goon upstairs to sort him out. Meanwhile Gregor, Barny's misshapen friend with a lust for statues, is put on trial for indecently assaulting a public monument, and Barny attempts to cope with a dramatisation of a dream he's had. More of the madness we've come to expect from Steve Aylett, but somehow this latest series of escapades just doesn't seem to match up to Aylett's past glories. I think it's the length of the work that's at fault here; for me, Aylett's brand of satire has always worked best in small, concentrated bursts, which episodic books like Bigot Hall and The Crime Studio exhibited to good effect. He can quite happily sustain a single story over a hundred or so pages, but with a continuous narrative spread across four volumes and possibly more to follow I suspect he's overreached himself. Worse, he's starting to tend towards soap opera.

46. Steve Aylett: The Velocity Gospel - An Infinity Plus Review
    The Velocity Gospel Accomplice Book Two. by steve aylett. (Gollancz 2003.).You have to be in the right mood for steve aylett's quirky fiction.  
    http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/velocitygospel.htm
    
    Extractions: You have to be in the right mood for Steve Aylett's quirky fiction. If you're feeling bright and breezy then something like, say, The Velocity Gospel can seem interestingly different, funny and demanding. If you've got a bit of a hangover or you're just a little tired then the same book can seem pretentious, nonsensical and obstreperously difficult. So, allowing for me having been in the right frame of mind whilst reading The Velocity Gospel , I quite enjoyed it. The further adventures of Barny Juno and friends were almost as entertaining as previously and is it my imagination imposing some order on Aylett's warped world or is there some measure of political satire in here? Talking of his voters and the need to keep them occupied with anything but politics, Mayor Rudloe cynically suggests: "Convince them they prosper through witnessing prosperity" (page 63). Surely Aylett wouldn't let reality intrude into Accomplice , would he?

47. Steve Aylett, Science Fiction, Atom
    Interview steve aylett. Interview by and © Amy Harlib. His latest novel Atom (seeour review) was published in America in November 2000. Books by steve aylett.  
    http://www.scifidimensions.com/Dec00/steveaylett.htm
    
    Extractions: www.scifidimensions.com June 2001 Institutional Member of SFWA All original content is John C. Snider unless otherwise indicated. No duplication without express written permission. December 2000 Interview: Steve Aylett Interview by and © Amy Harlib Introduction by John C. Snider Image from www.steveaylett.com British writer Steve Aylett has caught the attention of the science fiction community with his over-the-top, almost painfully satirical style. Unlike many authors who insist on churning out bloated, bug-crushing tomes, Aylett delivers slim books that pack the punch of battlefield nukes. His latest novel Atom (see our review ) was published in America in November 2000. Books by Steve Aylett scifi dimensions What was the defining moment in your life when you knew you were going to be a writer? Steve Aylett: I can’t remember a specific moment - I know when I was about five years old I made little illustrated books based on monster movies. I did a Jason and the Argonauts book in which the heroes would arrive at an island, see a monster, Jason would say ‘Quick - get back to the ship’ - and they’d sail away. This happened at a long series of islands, with different monsters. They never actually fought anyone. I like to think my writing skills have developed a little bit since then. The real motive later on was to write the kinds of books I wanted to read. I’d go into bookshops looking for something with alot of juice and ideas, to counter the general sterility of the time. I couldn’t find anything, so I had to write it myself. I still write the sort of books I’d like to read.

48. Only An Alligator By Steve Aylett
    March 2002. Book Review Only an Alligator by steve aylett. Published in the UKby Victor Gollancz. Links. steve aylett Official Website. steve aylett Interview.  
    http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar02/onlyanalligator.htm
    
    Extractions: www.scifidimensions.com March 2002 Latest News Commentary Letters to the Editor Original Fiction ... Atlanta SF Calendar Institutional Member of SFWA All original content is John C. Snider unless otherwise indicated. No duplication without express written permission. March 2002 Book Review: Only an Alligator by Steve Aylett Published in the UK by Victor Gollancz Trade Paperback, 133 pages January 2002 Retail Price: £7.99 ISBN: 0-5750-6906-6 Review by John C. Snider Barny Juno lives in a house of ladders on the outskirts of the city named Accomplice. All he wants is to "care for the winged and stepping animals of the earth, and be happy." His home is a menagerie of orphaned creatures, including a lion, 800 eels and a dog named Help who likes to wear mascara. Barny counts among his circle of friends a guy with a fetish for dinosaurs, a zombie who drinks formaldehyde and sleeps in a peat bog, and a fellow whose transparent head once gave birth to a weird crustacean. Barny rescues an alligator from the sewers, little realizing that it's the property of the devil. When a demon named Deitrich shows up to retrieve the 'gator, Barny suddenly finds himself an unwelcome pawn in a political tug-of-war. One the one hand is Mayor Rudloe, whose office is infested with floor lobsters (a sure sign of corruption) and who keeps the city's moral fiber locked up in a secure tower. On the other hand is Doomed Eddie Gallo, the eternally unsuccessful opposition candidate who concocts one ridiculous campaign slogan after another.

49. Literature/Authors/A/Aylett, Steve - Fractured Atlas Links Directory
    LINKS steve aylett at the Complete Review An overview of the life and worksof steve aylett, with links to reviews and further information.  
    http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/links/Literature/Authors/A/Aylett__Steve/

50. Only An Alligator, By Steve Aylett
    Only An Alligator (Accomplice Book 1), by steve aylett Victor Gollancz,2001, £9.99, 135pp ISBN 057506-906-6 See also The Velocity  
    http://www.swindongig.co.uk/stupc/Reviews/Alligator.html
    
    Extractions: ISBN 0-57506-906-6 See also The Velocity Gospel (Accomplice Book Two) Except for Steve Aylett’s wonderful article on The Caterer , a cult ‘70s comic that tragically happens to have never existed, Only An Alligator is my first exposure to the man and his work. Having now been completely exposed I can tell you that any synopsis of events therein will necessarily be haphazard and completely inadequate, but such things are kind of expected in a book review, so… Barny Juno lives in Accomplice, a smallish town on the shores of the Baffling Ocean and the edge of Bloody Canyon (according to the map in the front). You won’t be surprised to learn that Accomplice has not existed previously, does not exist now and is unlikely ever to exist in the future; in fact, it’s nothing but a bizarrely realised figment of the author’s imagination! Where, then, does it come from? And why? I was actually going to write this review in an imitation of Aylett’s occasionally hilarious Surrealese, but we reviewers (most of us, anyway) have to stray at least occasionally into seriousness and consistency or else we don’t get invited back. It’s a problem, I don’t mind telling you, especially for a bloody-minded book like Only An Alligator . Stuff occurs in this book, stuff that doesn’t occur anywhere else in literature. Is that for the best? Well, probably.

51. Onward Elsewhere - Steve Aylett Reviews
    steve aylett. Author Information, ReviewedBooks, Other Books. Website steveaylett.com,  
    http://onwardelsewhere.com/aylett.html
    
    Extractions: Notes: (A) - The Accomplice Books Slaughtermatic Added 3/7/00 Our Ranking Inflatable Volunteer Added 7/23/00 Our Ranking Atom Added 8/11/01 Our Ranking I am the one writing this review. Shamanspace Added 2/8/03 Our Ranking Search: All Products Books Magazines Popular Music Classical Music Video DVD Baby Electronics Software Outdoor Living Wireless Phones Keywords:

52. Links To Literature: Steve Aylett
    GENERAL RESOURCES. GENERAL RESOURCES. steve aylett Website. Biography, bibliography,interiews, quotes, and current news. steve aylett at the Complete Review.  
    http://www.linkstoliterature.com/aylett.htm
    
    Extractions: LINKS TO LITERATURE HOME BULLETIN BOARD LITERATURE NEWSLETTERS SUGGEST-A-SITE ... SEARCH THE WEB NEW! Enter to win a $100 Amazon.com Gift Certificate simply by referring friends to this site! To begin earning entries in the next drawing, please visit our Refer-A-Friend Page GENERAL RESOURCES GENERAL RESOURCES Steve Aylett Website Biography, bibliography, interiews, quotes, and current news. Steve Aylett at the Complete Review Biographical and bibliographical notes, as well as reviews. Steve Aylett Biography Photo and brief profile. Need a second opinion? Try Search the Web. GoTo Half.com Audible.com Amazon ... eBay

53. Review: Steve Aylett's Shamanspace, Reviewed By Nick Brownlow
    Killing God Alchemical Adventure and Pulp Metaphysics in steve aylett'sShamanspace. Reviewed by Nick Brownlow. 8/12/02. An armchair  
    http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020812/shamanspace.shtml
    
    Extractions: "An armchair was already dwindling into the corner as electrovistas opened up in front, the stream of cells blowing past. Bloodshot intervals of subterranean transport and the racket of magic." Steve Aylett, Shamanspace B ritish writer Steve Aylett has been plying his narcotics-fuelled SF satire for nearly a decade now, fiercely lampooning society's hypocrisies and idiosyncrasies in the form of stylish and witty genre fiction. The dawn of the 21st Century saw him slip into high gear with the publication of four new full-length novels, a collection of short stories, and a short novel, all in the last two years. Published by Orion in the UK and Four Walls Eight Windows in the US, Aylett has garnered critical praise on both sides of the Atlantic, inside and outside traditional SF circles. Writing in a style that resembles a bizarre blend of William Burroughs and Philip K. Dick (by way of Elmore Leonard), Aylett is best known for his sequence of books set in the iconic city of Beerlight: a crime-ridden urban-noir hell inhabited by a menagerie of grotesque, amoral characters and surreal, mind-bending technology. Characterised by their gonzo humour and casual absurdity, it's entirely possible to miss the dark current of vitriol that runs through them, and thus miss the points Aylett seeks to make entirely. Shamanspace the short novel mentioned earlier is a very different beast from the Beerlight books.

54. Underside Of The ORG - Steve Aylett Books - Page 1
    Our price $10.36 (that's 20% off!) 12.95 Sales rank 161,779. Author steve aylett. - - - -. Author steve aylett. - - - - -. Average customer rating Bleck  
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    Extractions: Only an Alligator February, 2003 Our price: $9.99 Author: Steve Aylett USA United Kingdom Canada ... Japan Average customer rating: The Velocity Gospel February, 2003 Our price: $9.99 Author: Steve Aylett USA United Kingdom Canada ... Japan Average customer rating: Toxicology: Stories October, 1999 Our price: $10.36 that's off! Aylett encounters the same obstacles a Burroughs or Ballard did: if you're pushing the envelope, you're bound to confound dullards.... I guarantee you've never read work like this: and if you don't prejudge it, you WILL find it hilarious. Evelyn Waugh for the 21st century. A souped-up Bruce Sterling. Yum. Worth a few bucks for the ride. It will leave no impression...if you're a corpse! True, if you're looking for Isaac Asimov, this won't be your bag. But if you're openminded... Aylett is a raucous, un-pigeonholeable wildman whose work is amazingly funny. An in-your-face series of rants and bizarre fantasies. I don't see how anyone can read "If Armstrong Was Interesting" without laughing out loud: I read a passage to some friends on the street and we could barely walk we laughed so hard. They leave no impression...only if you're a corpse!

55. Steve Aylett Index. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Web Si
    The Eternal Night steve aylett Index. A site dedicated to Science Fiction, Fantasyand Horror Books. steve aylett Information and Links steve aylett's Web Site.  
    http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/books/a/aylettsteve.html

56. Adams, Douglas Adler Jr, Bill Aldiss, Brian Aldiss, Brian
    Ashley, Mike. Ashwell, Pauline. Asimov, Isaac. Asimov, Isaac Silverberg, Robert.Asprin, Robert Lynn. Asprin, Robert Lynn Evans, Linda. Austin, JD. aylett, steve.  
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57. Toxicology: Steve Aylett [Review © T Brown, 2001]
    Toxicology. steve aylett Gollancz, 2001, 131pp, £9.99, ISBN 0575071109.Toxicology bears the stamp, in quality and quantity, of impatience  
    http://www.avnet.co.uk/home/amaranth/Critic/aylett2.htm
    
    Extractions: Gollancz, 2001, 131pp, £9.99, ISBN 0575071109 Toxicology bears the stamp, in quality and quantity, of impatience: a first collection of Aylett's short work, it includes pieces that might have been omitted if publication had been delayed for a few years. The anthology first appeared in the United States in 1999. It consisted of unpublished work as well as pieces (to call them 'stories' would be limiting, if not inaccurate) that had appeared in miscellaneous anthologies and publications since 1994. This expanded UK edition includes six additional pieces: some have been published in the last couple of years, while others are new. The additions are identifiable by their British spelling, if nothing else, since the earlier works retain the Americanised variants of words. The diversity of the publications which have featured Aylett's short fiction gives an idea of his surreally eclectic material. Here are slipstream stories from themed anthologies like Disco 2000 and the NEL Book of Internet Short Stories : postmodern horror and satire from the independent magazine sector ( Gargoyle, Carpe Noctem

58. Atom: Steve Aylett [Review © T. Brown, 2000
    Atom. steve aylett Weidenfeld Nicholson, 2000, 137pp, £9.99. Thecity sprawled like roadkill, spreading more with each new pressure.  
    http://www.avnet.co.uk/home/amaranth/Critic/aylett1.htm
    
    Extractions: Welcome to Beerlight, Steve Aylett's cyber-noir vision of a near-future metropolis with a comic-book aesthetic and a cartoon morality. Down these mean streets a man must walk: meet Taffy Atom, whose card reads 'Private Defective' - and that may not be a typo. Atom is the naked detective, with mysterious origins and ambiguous motives: occasionally he dons a huge black coat and plays shamanistic clarinet at the Creosote Club. His business partner, Madison Drowner, upholds the tradition of the smart, mouthy babe who can look after herself and take care of any trouble-makers, whilst mixing a mean cocktail and creating psychoactive weaponry (rather like Gibson's Chrome). Atom's security consists of Jed Helms, whose human head has apparently been grafted onto the body of a bulldog-sized fish:

59. SciFan: Writer: Steve Aylett (bibliography, Books, Series, Web Links)
    writers series A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, home about links email. Writers steve aylett (1967 - ), Bibliography,  
    http://www.scifan.com/writers/AA/AylettSteve.asp

60. Re:mote Induction: Steve Aylett - Slaughtermatic
    Author steve aylett. Publisher steve aylett was last reviewed in these pages asauthor of the story Gigantic which appeared in the collection Disco 2000.  
    http://rem_ind.tripod.com/visual/aylett3.htm
    
    Extractions: Title: Author: Publisher: Steve Aylett was last reviewed in these pages as author of the story Gigantic which appeared in the collection Disco 2000 . This is Aylett's third novel, following The Crime Studio and Bigot Hall , and returning to the city of Beerlight . Additionally, characters like Blince, Parker and Panacea are featured, though are not the central characters. Those roles are taken by Dante Cubit, The Entropy Kid and Rosa Control . As I say, this book is set in a city called Beerlight , a city which Aylett describes: "Where to kill a man is less a murder than a mannerism. Where crime is the new and only art form." With the central characters being proponents of the style - hence the book kicks in with a crime. Dante and The Entropy Kid are robbing a bank - but this isn't merely about money, it's about artistic statement, and as such their target is something special. While The Entropy Kid covers the staff/customers, Dante goes for the vault, which has security designed to send him 20 minutes into the future and the waiting arms of the police. But knowing this

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