Steve Aylett

(b.1967)

Steve Aylett 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 plot the books possess.

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

Aylett claims to have books appear in his brain in one visual "glob" which looks like a piece of gum (but denies it's "channelled").

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Beerlight
The Crime Studio (1994)
Slaughtermatic (1998)
Toxicology (1999)
Atom (2000)

Accomplice
1. Only an Alligator (2001)
2. The Velocity Gospel (2002)
3. Dummyland (2002)
4. Karloff's Circus (2004)
The Complete Accomplice (omnibus) (2010)

Novels

Bigot Hall (1995)
The Inflatable Volunteer (1999)
Shamanspace (2001)
Fain the Sorceror (2005)
Novahead (2011)
Heart of the Original (2015)

Collections

The Bizarro Starter Kit (2007) (with Mykle Hansen, Jordan Krall and Christian TeBordo)
Smithereens (2010)

Novellas

Rebel at the End of Time (2011)
Fain the Sorcerer (2011)

Non fiction

Lint (2005)
And Your Point Is? (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Steve Aylett

Disco 2000 (1998)

Short stories

	Infestation (1994)
	Repeater (1995)
	The Met Are All for This (1997)
	The Passenger (1997)
	Resenter (1997)
	Sampler (1997)
	Bestiary (1998)
	Gigantic (1998)
	The Siri Gun (1998)
	Tusk (1998)
	Angel Dust (1999)
	Dread Honor (1999)
	The Idler (1999)
	If Armstrong Was Interesting (1999)
	Jawbreaker (1999)
	Maryland (1999)
	Shifa (1999)
	Tail (1999)
	Tug of War (1999)
	The Waffle Code (1999)
	Black Triangle (2000)

Awards

Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1998) : Slaughtermatic

Steve Aylett recommends

Battle Without Honor or Humanity: Volume 1 (2015)
(Battle Without Honor or Humanity, book 1)
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