"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.
Praise for
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 and Digital
Leatherette
"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 10:01 and 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 and
Stranger on the Loose
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."
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