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

Literature & Fiction

AYLETT, Steve

Humor & Satire

Scar Garden Press

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

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

About to quit the failed experiment of civilisation, fake detective Taffy Atom is detained by one last case - a boy with a bomb in his mind. But what's the trigger? Pursued by cops, mobsters, mercenaries and a mechanical swan, Atom carries the bomb and trigger through Beerlight City, the single holdout of creative mischief in a world overtaken by the trend-led Fadlands. By the relentless principles of gun karma Aylett's final Beerlight book lands you in the Delayed Reaction Bar and fixes you a glass of antifreeze with everything in it. Listen to your heart. It will not stop slowly. "The most original and most consciousness-altering living writer in the English language, not to mention one of the funniest. In NOVAHEAD Aylett delivers his most searing work to date and comes up with noir fiction so black it's fluorescent" - Alan Moore. Steve Aylett has been described as "utterly original" (SFX), "an unstoppable master of space and time" (Asimov's), "the most original voice in the literary scene" (Michael Moorcock) and "the coolest writer alive today" (Starburst). "Aylett has made a career out of redefining the boundaries of science fiction - and sanity." - Barnes & Noble Spotlight Feature.

Novahead

After strangling a mime in the King's court, Fain encounters a crazy old man who offers to grant him three wishes. What will Fain ask for? Looping through his own past and offending kings and leaders throughout the world, Fain searches for the means to wisely direct his new powers. His quest grows increasingly vivid as he encounters monsters, mermaids, warlocks and autarchs, gathering richer understanding with each magic gift. With an introduction by Alan Moore, Fain the Sorcerer is a dense and mischievous work of shamanic satire. "Aylett makes both the journey and its end an absolute delight for the reader... an instant classic in the field" - Locus "rip-roaring good fun" - Jeff Vandermeer, SFsite "a stunning work of the imagination that is also very, very funny, from one of the most exciting and innovative creators to emerge along in years." - Alan Moore Steve Aylett has been described as "utterly original" (SFX), "an unstoppable master of space and time " (Asimov 's), " the most original voice in the literary scene" (Michael Moorcock) and " the coolest writer alive today " (Starburst). "Aylett has made a career out of redefining the boundaries of science fiction - and sanity." - Barnes & Noble Spotlight Feature www.steveaylett.com

Fain the Sorcerer

A NEW ADVENTURE IN MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S 'END OF TIME' UNIVERSE   21st-century revolutionary Leo finds himself at the End of Time, surrounded by decadent sorcerers whose childlike incomprehension is his worst nightmare. How to be effective when consequence is removed? What can have meaning when everything is transformed into fashion? Can love exist here? Leo storms through this lurid land in search of meaning, a cause, and a meal he can recognise.   " the most original voice in the literary scene" - Michael Moorcock  Steve Aylett has been described as "utterly original" (SFX), "an unstoppable master of space and time" (Asimov 's) and " the coolest writer alive today " (Starburst).   "one of the most exciting and innovative creators to emerge in years" - Alan Moore "a phenomenal talent" - Trashotron  "Aylett has made a career out of redefining the boundaries of science fiction - and sanity" - Barnes & Noble Spotlight Feature  "the sheer exuberance and inventiveness that can take a sentence, twist it through an unfathomable angle, and layer on meanings and associations that enrich the text. There's a real sense of Aylett's joy in playing with words, a sense of fun that is still mingled with acute observation." – Concatenation

Rebel at the End of Time

Originality is hated and pretended, but the real thing is beautiful. 
Heart of the Original is about the strange way people behave when confronted with real originality and the fun of making them behave that way. It's a secret history which explains why the same idea is repeatedly hailed as a breakthrough, how to locate original ideas by thinking spatially, why almost any situation is improved by a berserking hen, why obvious outcomes are declared a surprise and whether humanity wants to survive. It's a creativity manual, a satire and a relief. 
Annoy your friends and baffle your enemies with this 2025 pocket paperback edition. 
"Force-fed with ideas until its liver explodes, this is a sizzling and hilarious manifesto where its author means every blazing word. Probably the most astonishing thing you will read during this otherwise lacklustre incarnation." - Alan Moore 
"This is a manual to creativity that no artist or heavy thinker should be without" - January Magazine 
"Originality irritates so obscurely you may have to evolve to scratch it" - Jeff Lint 
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Heart of the Original, 2025 edition: Originality, Creativity, Individuality

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