- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Codex; illustrated edition edition (10 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1899598200
- ISBN-13: 978-1899598205
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 531,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The True Voice of the 21st Century,
By A Customer
This review is from: Shamanspace (Paperback)
Aylett's fertile and totally unique imagination does it again. God has been found to exist and the hunt is on to take revenge. Aylett is the natural successor to William Burroughs, J.G.Ballard and Michael (Jerry Cornelius) Moorcock. He is hitting the hip pulse of the planet and he gets better all the time. Put this at the top of your list. You won't regret it.Lewis Carroll meets Salvador Dali and Raymond Chandler. Yes!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Insanity Unleashed,
By Jesse B Ellyson (Dale City, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shamanspace (Paperback)
A psychedelic romp through the etheric soul of eternity, ‘Shamanspace’ reads like a recipe for a psychotic episode of mass proportions. At long last we have proof that God exists and the race is on to take revenge on the supreme maker of life, death, and cheap whiskey. The edgeman Alix is the favored to win as he sidesteps through time and space on his quest to drive the bullet home. God is the target, Alix is the gun, and the stakes are high as the very existence of humanity perches on the cusp of oblivion. Steve Aylett has created a masterwork of speculative fiction written in a hybrid English perhaps best described as Cyberspeak. The book is fast paced and unrelenting and it keeps the reader riveted right to the last page. Read this book and prepare to be dazzled and dazed and altered on a cellular level. ‘Shamanspace’ isn’t so much taken in through the eyes as it is injected into the veins. This book is a drug delivered on a dirty needle. It will leave you mind-blown and wasted and craving still more.
4.0 out of 5 stars
'beating in the void his luminous wings in vain',
This review is from: Shamanspace (Paperback)
...it feels appropriate enough to quote Matthew Arnold's words on Shelley here. If you come to Shamanspace looking for a completely assured, furious gagfest you may be disappointed - or perhaps not: the line between comic and tragic is never that impermeable, and real insight is often readable both ways. (Could you really imagine a production of Waiting For Godot that elicits no laughs?)
Shamanspace is novella-length, treating the subject of an assassination attempt on God by organisations scalding with rage at the universal suffering that comes with sentience. The exposition is handled slightly, even off-handedly at points, and often the action, motivations and themes are conveyed more through descriptive, allusive language than straightforward narration. This approach is suggestive of half-veiled meanings and significance, almost like reading an ominous dream. My only problem with it is one of balance; although the style generates more real poetry than I can locate in many poems, it isn't in every single instance fully successful at propelling the plot, occasionally giving an impression of a slightly over-ornamented short story, or perhaps an idea for a full-length novel incompletely realised: hence only four stars instead of five. Nevertheless, these ambitious traits contribute to what makes Shamanspace interesting and atmospheric rather than blandly action-oriented, and Aylett's felicitous phrasing and startling acuity combined with a compelling central concept make this well worth reading. Afterwards I found myself wondering whether it was glorious or terrible that humans are left with nothing to worship but one another. Any author that makes you have such thoughts while you are trying to eat your lunch really is a star.
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