Bio: Steve Aylett was born in Bromley, England. He left school at 17 and worked in a book warehouse, and later in law publishing, where he invented the concept of 'fractal litigation', whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world results in a massive compensation claim on the other. His first book The Crime Studio was generally regarded as a cry for help. This was followed by Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic, The Inflatable Volunteer, Toxicology, Atom, Shamanspace, Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland, Karloff's Circus, LINT, and Fain the Sorcerer. He's published by Orion in the UK, and Four Walls Eight Windows and Avalon in the US, and was a finalist for the 1998 Philip K Dick Award (for Slaughtermatic).