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Some stories in this new collection take place in Beerlight, the city of heroic criminals and villainous cops Steve Aylett introduced in Slaughtermatic. Others are set in unique worlds, creations of Ayletts twisted vision and sardonic sense of humor. If Armstrong Was Interesting is a series of scenarios imagining how the American hero might have jazzed up his voyage to the moon. In Gigantic, corpses rain from the sky as payback for the massacres of our century.
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PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES BY: Four Walls Eight Windows 39 West 14th Street, room 503 New York, N.Y., 10011
Visit our website at http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com
First printing September 1999.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a data base or other retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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Aylett, Steve, 1967 Toxicology : stories / by Steve Aylett. p. cm. ISBN 1-56858-131-9 I. Title. PR6051.Y57T61999 823'.914dc21 99-33899 CIP
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Printed in Canada
Page v
Contents
Gigantic
1
Repeater
13
Jawbreaker
21
Tusk
27
The Waffle Code
33
If Armstrong Was Interesting
41
The Siri Gun
45
Infestation
53
Bestiary
55
Sampler
59
Tail
79
Shifa
85
The Passenger
91
The Idler
97
Dread Honor
101
Maryland
109
The Met Are All for This
121
Tug of War
125
Resenter
129
Angel Dust
135
Page vii
"This regime of the surrounding error" Jacques Rigaut, Lord Patchogue
Page ix
"Everything is poison, nothing is poison." Paracelsus
"Snake does not bite man; snake bites what man thinks." Vinson Brown
Page xi
"Learning to speak is like learning to shoot." Avital Ronell The Telephone Book
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Gigantic
Strange aircraft arrived with the sky that morning, moving blood-slow. And Professor Skychum was forced from the limelight at the very instant his ranted warnings became most poignant. "They're already here!"
Skychum had once been so straight you could use him to aim down, an astrophysicist to the heart. No interest in politicsto him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size. Then one afternoon he had a vision which he would not shut up about.
The millennium was the dull rage that year and nutters were in demand to punctuate the mock-emotional retrospectives filling the countdown weeks. The media considered that Skychum fit the billin fact they wanted him to wear one.
And the stuff he talked about. There were weaknesses in his presentation, as he insisted that the whole idea occurred to him upon seeing Scrappy Doo's head for the first time. "That dog is a mutant!" he gasped, leaning forward in such a way, and
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with so precise an appalled squint to the eyes, that he inadvertently pierced the constrictive walls of localized space-time. A flare of interface static and he was seeing the whole deal like a lava-streamed landscape. He realized he was looking at the psychic holoshape of recent history, sickly and corrosive. Creeping green flows fed through darkness. These volatile glow trails hurt with incompletion. They converged upon a cesspit, a supersick build up of denied guilt. This dumping ground was of such toxicity it had begun to implode, turning void-black at its core.
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1999