All four of Steve Aylett's 'Accomplice' books in one volume, revised, with an intro by Michael Moorcock, preface and visuals. SFX calls the books "Bizarre, innovative and utterly original". Starburst calls them "a hugely impressive example of outrageous literary wit and uncommon good sense, demonstrating once more that Aylett is the coolest writer alive today". 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 demons discover they can never match or out-do humanity when it comes to spectacular corruption 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. "Aylett is the Mozart of science fiction: he descends from somewhere bearing complex, beautiful work" - Goodreads.
"It reads like a latter-day Alice in Wonderland... Aylett pulls out all the stops for this one." - scifidimensions
"a hugely impressive example of outrageous literary wit and uncommon good sense, demonstrating once more that Aylett is the coolest writer today" - Starburst
"Aylett's inventive use of the modern idiom is devastating" - Michael Moorcock
"Bizarre, innovative and utterly original" - SFX
"For those looking for wilder, intense entertainments - and those who, like some of the characters, have their brains outside their skulls - a visit to Accomplice might be just the thing" - Complete Review
"Something this rapid shouldn't be so intoxicating or so dense with ideas. The Accomplice series doesn't so much grow out of control as start out of control. It's a roaring, groaning perpetual motion machine decked out as a fun fair attraction. Read it and you'll need resuscitating." - 3AM
"As Mike Abblatia, car mechanic turned accidental angel, says, 'An artist pulls love from chaos.' Steve Aylett is one hell of an artist." - Paul DiFilippo, Asimov's
"If Aylett isn't on drugs, then his mind must be either fantastically psychedelic or scarily unhinged... The Terry Southern/Philip K Dick/Tom Wolfe pile-up of hallucinogenic plotting and gonzo beatnik writing style of his previous novels might provide some advance warning, but in his latest Aylett goes the whole hog." - The Scotsman
"Aylett is the Mozart of science fiction: he descends from somewhere bearing complex, beautiful work that defies convention as strongly as it follows conventional forms and he uses his language - words, in Aylett's case - with deft humor that hides how carefully-placed each piece is." - Goodreads
"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
"weirdness on industrial-strength hallucinogens" - BBCFocus
"If you imagine taking the English language and beating it with a large stick until it evolves into an almost new form then you get a small insight as to what Steve Aylett does to language. Words fly at you like grenades. Reading this book is akin to having your neurons fused and then rewired. You look at the real world as if it's not right after being exposed to this." - SF Crowsnest
Genre: Science Fiction
"It reads like a latter-day Alice in Wonderland... Aylett pulls out all the stops for this one." - scifidimensions
"a hugely impressive example of outrageous literary wit and uncommon good sense, demonstrating once more that Aylett is the coolest writer today" - Starburst
"Aylett's inventive use of the modern idiom is devastating" - Michael Moorcock
"Bizarre, innovative and utterly original" - SFX
"For those looking for wilder, intense entertainments - and those who, like some of the characters, have their brains outside their skulls - a visit to Accomplice might be just the thing" - Complete Review
"Something this rapid shouldn't be so intoxicating or so dense with ideas. The Accomplice series doesn't so much grow out of control as start out of control. It's a roaring, groaning perpetual motion machine decked out as a fun fair attraction. Read it and you'll need resuscitating." - 3AM
"As Mike Abblatia, car mechanic turned accidental angel, says, 'An artist pulls love from chaos.' Steve Aylett is one hell of an artist." - Paul DiFilippo, Asimov's
"If Aylett isn't on drugs, then his mind must be either fantastically psychedelic or scarily unhinged... The Terry Southern/Philip K Dick/Tom Wolfe pile-up of hallucinogenic plotting and gonzo beatnik writing style of his previous novels might provide some advance warning, but in his latest Aylett goes the whole hog." - The Scotsman
"Aylett is the Mozart of science fiction: he descends from somewhere bearing complex, beautiful work that defies convention as strongly as it follows conventional forms and he uses his language - words, in Aylett's case - with deft humor that hides how carefully-placed each piece is." - Goodreads
"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
"weirdness on industrial-strength hallucinogens" - BBCFocus
"If you imagine taking the English language and beating it with a large stick until it evolves into an almost new form then you get a small insight as to what Steve Aylett does to language. Words fly at you like grenades. Reading this book is akin to having your neurons fused and then rewired. You look at the real world as if it's not right after being exposed to this." - SF Crowsnest
Genre: Science Fiction
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