Aylett left school at age 17 and worked in a book warehouse, and later in law publishing.

A synesthete, Aylett claims to have books appear in his brain in one visual "glob" which looks like a piece of gum.

• Beerlight:
• The Crime Studio (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994)
• Slaughtermatic (Four Walls Eight Windows,1997)
• Atom (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000)
• Accomplice:
• # Only an Alligator (2002)
• # The Velocity Gospel (2002)
• # Dummyland (2002)
• # Karloff's Circus (2004)
• # THE COMPLETE ACCOMPLICE (collected edition)(2010)
• Bigot Hall (1995)
• The Inflatable Volunteer(1999) [+ revised US edn 2010 from Raw Dog Screaming]
• Toxicology (stories) (Four Walls Eight Windows, first edition 1999, expanded version 2001)
• Shamanspace (2001)
• Tao Te Jinx (quotes)
• Lint (Thunder's Mouth Press 2005, Snowbooks 2007)
• And Your Point Is?
• Fain the Sorcerer
• THE COMPLETE ACCOMPLICE (2010)
• Rebel at the End of Time
• Novahead
• Smithereens (stories)

Beerlight

Slaughtermatic, The Crime Studio, Atom and some of Toxicology are set in a supposedly future dystopian town called Beerlight, apparently modelled on Baltimore.

Accomplice

Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland, and Karloff's Circus are set in Accomplice, a suburb on a tropical peninsula in a perhaps nuclear-blasted future, underneath which live demons. Aylett says he is in the tradition of "real satirists" such as Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain. The four books are collected in THE COMPLETE ACCOMPLICE (2010, Scar Garden Press)

Lint

'Lint' is a satirical, Zelig-like biography of an imaginary author. The book traces his career through thinly disguised satires on a number of well-known writers from the late 20th Century, including Philip K. Dick, Hunter S Thompson and Ken Kesey. A no-budget movie of the book (incorporating the other Lint book 'And Your Point Is?') has been produced by Aylett and is being edited by Electric Children.

Comic books

He has written issue #27 of Tom Strong and a comic called The Nerve, as well as visual artifacts such as Jeff Lint's comic The Caterer. Newer projects include The Promissory for Arthur magazine’s ‘mimeo’ line, now published independently at lulu.com, and the surreal and colorful Get That Thing Away From Me. A strip titled 'Johnny Viable' has appeared in Alan Moore's print magazine Dodgem Logic.

Slaughtermatic was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998.

Winner of the Jack Trevor Story Award in 2006.

Interviews

• 2004 interview with Roy Christopher
• 2002 interview
• 2005 interview
• 2006 FractalMatter interview
• 2008 IncorporatingWriting interview

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