SLAUGHTERMATIC, by Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett
Slaughtermatic

"An instant avant-pop classic which signals the arrival of a major new talent. Two thumbs up!" — Larry McCaffery, Editor, Storming the Reality Studio

[Book Cover] "Aylett writes like a man possessed with comic demons, and while shades of goonishness punctuate his wayward descriptions, the style is entirely his own." — The Standard

"The language twists and turns on the page, skidding from metaphysical wit to grotesque body horror to condensed philosophical abstraction." — I.D.

"Aylett's prose is like poetry with attitude." — The Independent

Englishman Steve Aylett has been linked with Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting (The Independent, Dazed and Confused) and Jeff Noon of Vurt (The New Statesman), but, clearly, his work has its own unique stamp.

Welcome to the world of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism. Every landmark was a pincushion of snipers. Cop tanks navigated a graffiti-rashed riot of needle-bars, oil scabbed neon and diced rubble." The book opens with Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, attempting a bank robbery.

Murderous, trigger-happy cops, led by the doughnut-chomping redneck police chief, arrive in force, firing indiscriminately into the crowd gathered outside. "Guess it's what they call civil unrest, Chief." "This ain't civil unrest, Benny. It's civil goddamn insomnia. Pull back. Take out the whole goddamn street." Surrender or capture is out of the question. Dante's beloved, the murderous assassin Rosa Control — packing a not-so-small arsenal — prowls the streets, trying to engineer her man's escape. Will Dante slip past the forces of corruption and disorder to join his Rosa?

Born in 1967, Steve Aylett lives outside London. Slaughtermatic is his first book to be published in the United States.

$13.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-103-3 | 168 pp.
Fiction | World rights (excluding the UK)

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