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Токсикология

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Токсикология - сборник коротких рассказов. Некоторые издаются впервые, другие перепечатываются из журналов и антологий. Все рассказы короткие (некоторые очень короткие). От внушающей благоговейный трепет образности "Гигантика" до приятной непочтительности "Если Бы Армстронг Был Интересным", эти рассказы искрятся исключительным талантом, который ставит Стива Айлетта особняком среди современных авторов.
Действие некоторых рассказов разворачивается в Светлопиве (среди них "Пистолет Сири", знакомящий с ужасным миром Тэффи Атома), а другие происходят вообще черт знает где; "Токсикология" - по большей части сатира с добавленными к ней редкими светлыми вставками (в том числе сатира на "Грозную Славу" Вудхауза).

175 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

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Steve Aylett

48 books167 followers
Steve Aylett is a satirical science fiction and weird slipstream author of books such as LINT, The Book Lovers and Slaughtermatic, and comics including Hyperthick. He is known for his colourful satire attacking the manipulations of authority. Aylett is synaesthetic. He lives in Scotland.

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658 reviews7 followers
October 22, 2023
En novellsamling av Steve Aylett – det första och hittills enda jag läst av honom. Satirisk och surrealistisk science fiction har det klassificerats som och jag kan bara instämma. Det är tvära kast, vansinnga infall och ett språk som kanske inte alltid är lätt att tränga igenom. Även om novellerna är relativt korta kräver de sin läsare. Men den läsare som skärper sig och lägger ner den tid som krävs blir belönad.

Läs en halsbrytande förklaring om hur månlandningen kunde gjorts roligare (”If Armstrong was interesting”), ett möjligt sätt att hantera social inkompetens (”Jawbreaker”) och om människor som trivs bäst i dataspelsmiljöer men undviker all form av interagerande i dessa miljöer (”The Idler”).
Eller varför inte ”Ears, Goodbye” som förklarar varför en person som säger sig vilja bryta varje ben i din kropp har lite jobb framför sig?
29 reviews
June 20, 2018
First few stories capture the vibrant, go-for-broke, style of his first collection "The Crime Studio"…but too much Aylett may be a good and a bad thing depending on your state. Call it logorrheic, call it verbal diarrhea, in the end Aylett is a one trick pony and his trick got kinda tiresome.
5 reviews
March 23, 2023
I've every intention of going back in time to coffee shops filled filled with open mike night acoustic guitar whiners and giving a full-throated rendition of "If Armstrong Was Interesting."
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558 reviews457 followers
July 29, 2007
a 21st century Boris Vian, a funny Thomas Ligotti,naked lunch era Burroughs rewriting Voltaire, fast paced, grim and ridiculously funny and so bitterly true.
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Author 18 books37 followers
April 3, 2010
I love this book. The stories were hysterical, and Aylett's prose consistently amazed me. Granted, me may not be for everyone--too weird, too stream of conciousness, too whatever have you--but for the Jeeves and Wooster spoofs alone this is a book worth checking out.
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3 reviews9 followers
April 24, 2013
This book was a post-modern gem. It's a weird neo-noir grouping of short stories set in the fictional city of Beerlight. If you like really weird stuff, check it out. The writing is awesome and overall it's very humorous and dark.
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29 reviews2 followers
April 7, 2014
К этой книге нужно подходить осторожно. Желательно надеть шапочку из фольги и отключить внешние рецепторы. Мозгами ее точно не понять. Нужно просто расслабиться и получать удовольствие. И шапочку не забыть, да.
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March 25, 2026
short stories. so weird and smart and well done.
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June 20, 2018
First few stories capture the vibrant, go-for-broke, style of his first collection "The Crime Studio"…but too much Aylett may be a good and a bad thing depending on your state. Call it logorrheic, call it verbal diarrhea, in the end Aylett is a one trick pony and his trick got kinda tiresome.
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