Friday 5 April 2024

Alrightreads: Beerlight

Steve Aylett, The Crime Studio

1994 / Ebook / 156 pages

****

Quick-fire scenes from a violent soap, defamiliarising genre and description.

Faves: 'Motorcrash,' 'Back and to the Left,' 'Ambient'


Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

1998 / Ebook / 153 pages

***

The first Crime Studio movie, now with borderline incomprehensible cyberpunk trappings. The author's determined that every page will make you laugh and/or think, but the short stories were a lot easier to digest.


Steve Aylett, Toxicology: Stories

1999 / Ebook / 141 pages

****

Scattered shells from the ongoing crime soap and more liberated experiments in satire, substances and something or other.

Faves: 'Jawbreaker,' 'Sampler,' 'The Idler'


Steve Aylett, Atom

2000 / Ebook / 137 pages

**

I lost my grip and found nothing substantial in the elusive wiseguy conversations to grab onto. Not my favourite fictional detective.



Couldn't be bothered with the last one.