I'm completely astounded to find no mention here, anywhere, of an entire Simon Ings novel - originally published in 2000 - available as a free download on this website. Am I really the first to bring it to people's attention?
Simon Ings was one of my favourite science fiction writers of the late Eighties and Nineties. He's very much of the Interzone generation, with novels like HotHead and City of the Iron Fish under his belt. I haven't read anything by him I haven't loved (I like writers like Phil Dick, Paul Di Filippo, William Gibson etc, to give you an idea of where I'm coming from).
The book can be downloaded at:
http://www.simonings.net/homepages/s...gsdownloa.html.
The novel, Painkillers, isn't science fiction, or at least was published as non-genre. There are some hints in a couple of online reviews I remember reading that suggested it might be, how to put it, 'sf under the radar'. I haven't yet read it myself, but it's in line.