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The Velocity Gospel (Accomplice Book 2)
by Steve Aylett check out website: www.orionbooks.co.uk and www.accomplice.info and www.steveaylett.com
In this book, Sweeney seeks revenge and sends Skittermite to 'aggravate him unto death'. Meanwhile, the Major as a diversionary tactic creates the cult, Friends of Cyrl, but it gets out of hand and takes on a life of its own. Banners start appearing such as 'TOO DRY ELUSORY DREAM' and 'LET ROAD MURDERS YOYO'. Barny is totally unaware of Sweeney's intentions and is more intent on loosing his present girlfriend, Magenta Blaze, and chasing after Chloe Lowe. He seeks advice on his love life from the shaman Beltane Carmon. The advice given satisfies Barny but confuses the hell out of the reader. Meanwhile, Gregor is fired from his job at the sorting office because of his strange sexual yearnings for one of the town's clock knights. He finds a job with Stampede, selling unsuccessfully door-to-door. He seeks solace in the Church of Automata but gets thrown out but is welcomed into the Cannon Sect. If you imagine taking the weird visceral bits from ‘Farscape’ with a pinch of ‘Twin Peaks’ along with the most abstract fiction you've read, then you would only just come close to getting an impression of this book. If you imagine taking the English language and beating it with a large stick until it evolves into an almost new form then you get a small insight as to what Steve Aylett does to language. Words fly at you like grenades. Reading this book is akin to having your neurones fused and then rewired. You look at the real world as if it's not right after being exposed to this. This world that Aylett creates is just full of barmy characters. If you are willing to give this book a go, it will reward you with humour, clever, highly interesting characters and a world that is amazingly weird and visceral. It's also a good idea to have a look at both the Accomplice site www.accomplice.info as it is full of useful background information as is Steve Aylett's own website www.steveaylett.com. Both will aid and supplement your enjoyment of this series of books (you need all the help you can get). Give this book series a go. There is no one else that I can think of that you can easily compare to Steve Aylett’s books. It is just so original. Be aware though that it'll be a bit of a bumpy ride. I look forward to reading a lot more. Phil Jones
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OTHER REVIEWS - May 2003
Untied Kingdom by James Lovegrove Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book Of Horror edited by Stephen Jones Star Trek: Enterprise: Surak’s Soul by JM Dillard The Mammoth Book Of Future Cops - by Maxim Jakubowski For Love And Glory by Poul Anderson Super-State: A Novel Of Future Europe by Brian Aldiss The Velocity Gospel (Accomplice Book 2) by Steve Aylett Storm Of Wings (Dragonmaster: Book One) by Chris Bunch Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Tales Of The Slayer Volume 2 Son Of Man by Robert Silverberg Smallville: Whodunnit by Dean Wesley Smith 3SF # 3 publisher: Ben Jeapes. editor: Liz Holiday Star Trek: Nemesis - Novelisation The Assassin’s Edge by Juliet E. McKenna Kushiel's Dart & Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey One More For The Road by Ray Bradbury Foundation: The International Review Of Science Fiction # 86
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This
book follows the continuing adventures of Barny Juno and his friends,
Edgy and Gaffer. Like the first book in the series, ‘Only An Alligator’,
it's set in the city of Accomplice. This strange place has delights
such as the Juice Museum and the Church of Automata.
In
‘Only An Alligator’, Barny managed to thwart the demons with his
unusual affinity with large animals. This seriously narked off the
demons especially the leader, Sweeney. 
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