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Toxicology Kindle Edition
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.
Revised edition, with new intro.
“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
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 15, 2012
- File size525 KB
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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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Product details
- 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
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,553,409 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,881 in Satire
- #7,183 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #9,876 in Satire Fiction
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About the author

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, 1999One decent story, following by 19 bad ones. A diarrhea of artful words and images; a constipation of plot and characterization.