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This dual set, simultaneously published, represent’s the first collection of cult author Simon Sellars’s writing.
“Sellars’s fiction is a cyberpunk punch straight to the groin. There is no way to classify his tales full of futuristic slang, sadistic humour and strange alien viruses.”
—Holobionte
Love Is a Totalitarian State brings together 30 years of Sellars’s short fiction. The collection includes 30 pieces, some unpublished (including prototype sketches for his novels Applied Ballardianism: Memoir From a Parallel Universe and Code Beast), plus ‘Love Is a Totalitarian State that Grows Deep Inside Me’, which lends its title to the collection and is the first of his stories set in the Vexworld, an augmented-reality hell.
Theory-Fiction Is a Scam brings together 30 years of Sellars’s non-fiction. It mixes travel writing with academic essays; articles with interviews; reviews with provocations. Topics include architecture and urbanism; surveillance culture; artificial intelligence; sound design; film; autonomous cars; and Sellars’s animating spirit guide, J.G. Ballard. The collection also includes the theory-fiction that made Sellars’s name, works that blend fact with fiction in order to comment on the hemorrhaging nature of consensus reality: experiments culminating in the grand design of Applied Ballardianism: Memoir From a Parallel Universe.
Simon Sellars is a writer and editor based in Melbourne, Australia. He’s the author of the cult ‘theory-fiction’ book, Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from A Parallel Universe (Urbanomic, 2018), the AI dystopia novel Code Beast, and co-editor of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard (Fourth Estate, 2012).
