Lint
by Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett has always gone a step farther than his contemporaries. In Slaughtermatic, he pushed the limits of science fiction, and for that he was named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Now, in Lint, he offers the first-ever biography of one of the great minds of our time: Jeff Lint, author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the late twentieth century. Lint transcended genre in classics such as Jelly Result and The Stupid Conversation, becoming a cult figure and pariah. Like his contemporary Philip K. Dick, he was ”blithely ahead of his time.”
Aylett follows Lint through his Beat days, his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia, and resentment, his disastrous scripts for Star Trek and Patton, and his belated Hollywood success in the 1990s. It was a career haunted
by death, including the undetected death of his agent; the
controversial death of his rival, Herzog; and the unshakable "Lint is
dead" rumors, which persisted even after his death. This hilarious mock
biography is outrageous and remarkably funny, Aylett is an Evelyn Waugh for our time.
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Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett (born 1967 in Bromley, United Kingdom) is a satirical science fiction and slipstream author.
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