Tag: Novahead
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D. Harlan Wilson on Aylett’s Novahead
“Alan Moore calls Aylett ‘the most original and most consciousness-altering living writer in the English language, not to mention one of the funniest.’ By definition, book blurbs are hyperbolic marketing ploys, but in this case, Moore isn’t far off target.” Read More
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Burning Man
I thought Steve Aylett was joking when one of the characters in his phosphorescent noir-action novel, Novahead, says that a character in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House died from spontaneous human combustion. I have obviously never read Bleak House. David Perdue tells us that “Dickens sparked controversy in Bleak House when he had a rag and bone dealer named Krook die…