ATOM, by Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett
Atom

Taffy Atom: the toughest, coolest P.I. since Bogart — assisted in his adventures by a voracious sidekick who happens to be a fish.

Atom: sheer mayhem illuminated by wit of the first order, intense violence relieved by startlingly original use of language.

Atom takes us into strange territory previously traversed only by the likes of Jonathan Lethem and Paul Di Filippo. Hilarious and hip, Atom gives flesh to the nightmarish world of Beerlight, where cops are villains and the criminals, if not heroes, are no worse than the forces of law and disorder.

Steve Aylett is the author of Slaughtermatic (a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award) and Toxicology. Born in 1967, he lives in England.

"Steve Aylett is without doubt one of the most ambitious and talented new writers to emerge in England in recent years. While his work echoes the best of William Burroughs, it has the mark of real originality. It's hip, cool and eloquent.… Aylett has a cold, accurate eye, a mocking wit and a black, playful angle of attack which has learned something from cyberpunk but has that smack of idiosyncrasy, that sense of exploring new territories, that laconic, confident humor which tells you this is exactly the book you've been waiting for." — Michael Moorcock

$14.95 | paper | ISBN: 1-56858-175-0 | 137 pp.
Fiction | Novel

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