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Toxicology Kindle Edition

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

Know the futility and do it anyway.
Corpses rain down from the sky as punishment for the massacres of the last century. A teacher solves the behavioral problems of a young girl by installing a nest of black spiders in her brain cavity. A police chief and his trooper unravel the twisted suicide of an ex-mobster by rehydrating a raisin. Criminals in animal masks parade around Beerlight City. A volunteer test subject for experimental hallucinogens experiences the entire history of mankind in a sensory deprivation tank.

In Toxicology, Steve Aylett tears down the walls of reality and lets all of the monsters out.

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“a potent, poisonous, post-cyberpunk cocktail of ultraviolence and outrage with a splash of Burroughs, a dash of Ballard, and a twist of Dick. ... the ideas are clever, the anger is justified, the prose is imaginative, and the dialogue is sharp”- Tbook.com

“a mindbursting overload of sensation”- January Magazine

“an excellent sampler of Aylett's terse literary style, bracingly keen satirical wit and and disconcertingly brilliant revisions of genre conventions ... Here's condensed prose of narcotic intensity”- Starburst

“One of the most original and most consciousness-altering living writers in the English language, not to mention one of the funniest.” -Alan Moore

“Aylett’s steady output of ribald, unpredictably plotted novels has earned him a reputation as one of sf’s true mavericks.” – Booklist

“Not only conceptually brilliant and satirically walloping, but stylistically innovative … ” - Paul DiFilippo, Asimov’s Science Fiction

“Aylett has made a career out of redefining the boundaries of science fiction – and sanity.” - Barnes and Noble Spotlight Feature

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Amazon.com Review

Smartass slacker satirist Steve Aylett follows up his debut novel, Slaughtermatic, with Toxicology, an equally scathing collection of 20 short (often short-short) stories, eight original and 12 reprinted (mostly from British publications like TechnoPagan, Crime Time, and Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll). Some of the stories share settings and characters with Slaughtermatic. All the stories are bursts of ferocious energy, fast and furious as punk-rock songs and about as subtle. The plotting is not complex (sometimes it's little more than the setup for an O. Henry twist), but the ideas are clever, the anger is justified, the prose is imaginative, and the dialogue is sharp (though the hard-boiled metaphors are occasionally overcooked to incomprehensibility). Toxicology is a potent, poisonous, post-cyberpunk cocktail of ultraviolence and outrage with a splash of Burroughs, a dash of Ballard, and a twist of Dick.

Three quick tastes: In "Gigantic," the media turns an astrophysicist forewarned of alien invasion into just another crackpot tabloid-TV guest. In "Tail," a hyper-Chandlerian PI follows a suspicious fiancé through a surreal cityscape. And in "The Passenger," a musician attempts to make his unknown band famous via a performance-art plane crash. --Cynthia Ward

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About the Author

Steve Aylett was born in London in 1967. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007L97F06
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scar Garden Press (March 15, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 15, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 525 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
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Steve Aylett is the author of absurdist satires including Lint, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic, Rebel at the End of Time etc, and comics such as Hyperthick and The Caterer. Alan Moore describes The Book Lovers as "utterly astonishing". Aylett lives in Scotland.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 1999
    One decent story, following by 19 bad ones. A diarrhea of artful words and images; a constipation of plot and characterization.
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