Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett
Born	1967
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1994 -
Genre	Satirical science fiction and slipstream
Website
http://www.steveaylett.com

Steve Aylett (b. 1967 in Bromley, United Kingdom) is a satirical science fiction and slipstream author of several bizarro books. He is renowned for his colorful satire attacking the manipulations of authority, and for having reams of amusing epigrams and non-sequiturs only tangentially related to what little linear plot the books possess. His characters are often Trickster figures.

Biography

Aylett left school at age 17 and worked in a book warehouse, and later in law publishing.

A synesthete, Aylett claims to have books appear in his brain in one visual "glob" which looks like a piece of gum.

Bibliography

ISBN section

• Beerlight:
  • The Crime Studio (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994)
  • Slaughtermatic (Four Walls Eight Windows,1997)
  • Atom (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000)
  • Novahead (Scar Garden, 2011)
• Accomplice (collected as The Complete Accomplice, 2010, ISBN 0956567703):
  • Only an Alligator (2002)
  • The Velocity Gospel (2002)
  • Dummyland (2002)
  • Karloff's Circus (2004)
• Bigot Hall (1995)
• The Inflatable Volunteer(1999) [+ revised US edn 2010 from Raw Dog Screaming]
• Toxicology (stories) (Four Walls Eight Windows, first edition 1999, expanded version 2001)
• Shamanspace (2001)
• Tao Te Jinx (quotes)
• Lint (Thunder's Mouth Press 2005, Snowbooks 2007 9781905005352)
• And Your Point Is?
• Fain the Sorcerer
• Rebel at the End of Time (written 2007, published 2011)
• Novahead (2011)
• Smithereens (stories)(2010)

Beerlight

Slaughtermatic, The Crime Studio, Atom and some of Toxicology are set in a supposedly future dystopian town called Beerlight, apparently modelled on Baltimore.

Accomplice

Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland, and Karloff's Circus are set in Accomplice, a suburb on a tropical peninsula in a perhaps nuclear-blasted future, underneath which live demons. Aylett says he is in the tradition of "real satirists" such as Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain. The four books are collected in THE COMPLETE ACCOMPLICE (2010, Scar Garden Press)

Lint

'Lint' is a satirical, Zelig-like biography of an imaginary author. The book traces his career through thinly disguised satires on a number of well-known writers from the late 20th Century, including Philip K. Dick, Hunter S Thompson and Ken Kesey. A no-budget movie of the book (incorporating the other Lint book 'And Your Point Is?') has been produced by Aylett, edited by Electric Children - screenings in UK and US commenced in 2011.

Comic books

He has written issue #27 of Tom Strong and a comic called The Nerve, as well as visual artifacts such as Jeff Lint's comic The Caterer. Newer projects include The Promissory for Arthur magazine’s ‘mimeo’ line, now published independently at lulu.com, and the surreal and colorful Get That Thing Away From Me. A strip titled 'Johnny Viable' has appeared in Alan Moore's print magazine Dodgem Logic.

Awards and nominations

Slaughtermatic was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998.

Winner of the Jack Trevor Story Award in 2006.

References

• Steve Aylett at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Steve Aylett at the Internet Book List
• Steve Aylett at the Grand Comics Database
• Steve Aylett at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

• Official website
• Jeff Lint Note: this is a spoof Wikipedia page hosted by the publisher. Jeff Lint is a fictional character, the protagonist of the eponymous book 'Lint'
• Guest Blog 2011

Interviews

• 2004 interview with Roy Christopher
• 2002 interview
• 2005 interview
• 2006 FractalMatter interview
• 2008 IncorporatingWriting interview