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Beerlight #4

by Steve Aylett

Against a backdrop of buildings the colour of dried blood and a formaldehyde sky above streets filled with cars on their side billowing with smoke, Atom is pursued by cops, mobsters, mercenaries and a mechanical swan. He carries the bomb and trigger through Beerlight City, the single holdout of creative mischief in a world overtaken by the trend-led Fadlands. By the relentless principles of gun karma Aylett's final Beerlight book lands you in the Delayed Reaction Bar and fixes you a glass of antifreeze with everything in it. Listen to your heart. It will not stop slowly.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Bizarro Fiction, Novels

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 2011

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Steve Aylett is trapped in a world where he smarter and more talented than everyone else and he's trying to write his way back to his home planet. This planet will not become aware of his brilliance until after his death.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skull-cracking. Finally, after several decades of the norm, a wildly bold new voice in fiction. I wish Steve Aylett would do some mainstream comic book work, that stale horse is starting to stink up the joint with its aggressive scorn for blazing new trails or original concepts.

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just couldn't get into it. Not enough plot, characterisation, wisecracks for me, but that just says more about what I was expecting than the book itself. Worth trying but I'll not be rushing back for more

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a tremendous final chapter in the Beerlight saga. Profound, infinitely quotable, Aylett at his best.

[Jonathan Norton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jolly good.