And Your Point Is?
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Lint created a text that was unsettling only to those who are unaware enough to be ‘settled’ in the midst of the world’s nightmare…”
This follow-up to Lint, the biography of cult author Jeff Lint, delves deeper into the psychosis of the seminal writer’s work. This series of essays and reviews from around the globe, representing decades of study, is being presented for the first time in collected form. A must have for collectors, students, imitators, and stalkers alike.
“Satire has no effect-a mirror holds no fear for those with no shame.”
Contributors include Steve Aylett, Eileen Welsome, Arkhipov Halt, Daniel Guyal, Chris Diana, Alfred Bork, Michael H. Hersh, George Cane, Dennis Ofstein, and Jean-Marie Guerin.
What They’re Saying About And Your Point Is?
“These mini-essays explicating “Scorn & Meaning in Jeff Lint’s fiction” all bear the true and accurate stamp of gleeful derangement so characteristic of Lint the man, Lint the books, and Lint the monster from the fourth dimension.”
—Paul DiFilippo, ASIMOV’S
“And Your Point Is? stands as an indispensable addition for any serious fan or scholar of Jeff Lint’s fiction.”
—Interzone
“That this book is beyond good and evil. Simply beyond…Aylett writes sentences that come from another dimension, sentences that would make William S. Burroughs reach for the needle in an attempt to regain a foothold in reality.”
—The Agony Column
“AYPI? extends the gag of Lint – the plotless novels, the bizarre phobias (waiters, mostly), the obscure feuds and impersonations, and Aylett’s prose is typically thick with random-access gags, one liners and hilarious non-sequiturs. Lint is a rebel in a world that refuses to appreciate true originality while celebrating the shallow and unoriginal. Having met Jeff Lint, I always feel a tinge of regret when I browse the typically unappetising fare on offer on the SF shelves at my local Waterstones, but, until he actually somehow sidles his way into reality, we at least have Steve Aylett.”
—The Zone
“Nonsense has never been as pointed or as fun as in And Your Point Is? It also provides a nice companion piece to Lint, without (oddly enough) just repeating what made that book appealing.”
—Jeff Vandermeer for SFSite
“Borrowing a trick from Jorge Luis Borges and Stanislaw Lem, Steve Aylett in And Your Point Is? anthologises fictional reviews of nonexistent books by, in this case, his imaginary alter ego, Jeff Lint. As fans of Aylett’s earlier fake biography, LINT, already know, Jeff Lint is a hardcore pulp SF writer whose poetic genius is forever misunderstood by a society trading in structural hypocrisy. In this caustic bibliographic follow-up, Aylett demonstrates once again that he is a master of the philosophical one-liner, packing whole universes of despair into a single comedic sentence.”
—Steve Beard, author of Meat Puppet Cabaret
“A collection of outlandish critifictional forays written by madmen into the work of an equally mad SF cult author–who doesn’t happen to exist. Yet nobody’s madder than the collection’s “editor,” Steve Aylett. Every sentence here is an electric shock, every paragraph a feverdream novel in dense satiric miniature that you wish to hell you had thought of first.”
—Lance Olsen, author of Nietzsche’s Kisses
“Steve Aylett is a perceptual god. His literary criticism has informed countless fields of study and single-handedly redefined the nature of academic thought and praxis. With this collection devoted to the work of author Jeff Lint, Aylett achieves Olympian heights, urging us to read the human condition anew. A diagnostic apocalypse, And Your Point Is? should be the polestar of every intelligent reader’s library.”
—D. Harlan Wilson, author of Pseudo-City
Praise for LINT:
“Lint: in Steve Aylett, this clearly much misunderstood writer has found his Boswell, his Gilchrist, his Ackroyd. A cultural unearthing to equal those of Philip K Dick or Harry Stephen Keeler, this has to be the literary biography of the year. Highly recommended.”
—Alan Moore, creator of “Watchmen” and “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
“Aylett’s steady output of ribald, unpredictably plotted novels has earned him a reputation as one of sf’s true mavericks. Here he brings his madcap energy to the satirical ‘biography’ of an eccentric author of antic sf, Jeff Lint…Readers with the taste for offbeat humor of the Douglas Adams, genre-spoofing variety should savor Aylett’s latest.”
—Booklist
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