- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; paperback / softback edition (13 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857989619
- ISBN-13: 978-1857989618
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,078,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND meets William Burroughs - a new world from the 'distressingly brilliant' (The Guardian) Steve Aylett.
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Accomplice is the Wonderland of a sick Alice. In this self-contained, less than comfortable city the surreal and the nightmarish is everyday. This a world of casual, accepted insanity. Only the unique imagination of Steve Aylett, author of the acclaimed SLAUGHTERMATIC, could have created the world of Accomplice; a world that fantasy and SF fans alike can really get their teeth into.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have just been introduced to Steve Aylett via Michael Moorcock's recommendation and Aylett's work on the Fantastic Metropolis site and I have to say I am ASTOUNDED that I haven't read this incredible writer before. Is it just me or is this what John Bunyan would have written if they had acid back then ? Accomplice is the setting and people have names like Prancer Diego, Bingo Violane who visit places like The Shop of A Thousand Spiders. Believe me, there is no writer on earth like Steve Aylett. He is a true original and I am busily enjoying the next one. If you wish you'd been reading J.G.Ballard since he started, then jump on the Aylett racer -- it's weird and wonderful and all his own! And, for all its hard-boiled origins, it is very, very English. This is the cutting edge of imaginative writing. You won't find much better.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Don't unravel them- your ears were meant to be that way.
29 Oct 2008
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I just finished this last night so I'm still a little dizzy. Only An Alligator is similar to Aylett's Beerlight books and other works in the same way a safety pin is similar to a cannonball. Both are quite capable of puncturing the skin given the proper circumstances.
You will find the same odd linguistic gymnastic constructions, bizarre characters, unlikely and impossible plots, sub-plots, and sub-sub-plots. Aylett has full command of some of the strangest metaphors, similes, and general descriptors you will find anywhere in modern literature. (Is this literature? It is too artsy for pop culture so it must be so!) But Accomplice, the city/dimensional setting of Only An Alligator and presumably the other Accomplice books, is by far more surreal than even the strangest dark etheric alley corner of Beerlight. Floor lobsters, demons, wild cheetah pets, the pig servant/round one, a book about dogs, 800 eels, a political battle, and a savage kick in the family jewels are just a few of the threads woven into this odd little book.
If you are a fan of Aylett's other work, you will probably enjoy this as well. If you are new to Aylett, and are looking into dabbling into the weird proto-meta-fiction he creates, you should probably start with one of his more accessible works (i.e. Atom or The Crime Studio). Once you are familiar with Aylett's unconventional style, I'd invite you come back and swim in the deep end with Accomplice; but if you dive into this one unprepared you will probably drown before the end of the second chapter.
You will find the same odd linguistic gymnastic constructions, bizarre characters, unlikely and impossible plots, sub-plots, and sub-sub-plots. Aylett has full command of some of the strangest metaphors, similes, and general descriptors you will find anywhere in modern literature. (Is this literature? It is too artsy for pop culture so it must be so!) But Accomplice, the city/dimensional setting of Only An Alligator and presumably the other Accomplice books, is by far more surreal than even the strangest dark etheric alley corner of Beerlight. Floor lobsters, demons, wild cheetah pets, the pig servant/round one, a book about dogs, 800 eels, a political battle, and a savage kick in the family jewels are just a few of the threads woven into this odd little book.
If you are a fan of Aylett's other work, you will probably enjoy this as well. If you are new to Aylett, and are looking into dabbling into the weird proto-meta-fiction he creates, you should probably start with one of his more accessible works (i.e. Atom or The Crime Studio). Once you are familiar with Aylett's unconventional style, I'd invite you come back and swim in the deep end with Accomplice; but if you dive into this one unprepared you will probably drown before the end of the second chapter.
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