Reading once again through the list of chapter titles for Steven Shaviro’s mid-90s pomo theory-fiction Doom Patrols, nodding happily as the names of the greatly-hip roll by: Grant Morrison…My Bloody Valentine…Kathy Acker…William Burroughs…David Cronenberg…Philip Pullman…

Hold on - back up there a sec - Philip Pullman???

Yes, indeed: the author of the tremendous Miltonian-Blakean His Dark Materials trilogy had an “adult” novel out in 1978, called Galatea. Apparently it’s “a postmodern fable about the magical powers of sex, money, and simulation”. Out of print, unfortunately…

Update: Indeed, right there on the Doom Patrols main page, albeit shrouded in - of all the mid-90s curiosities - a blink tag, is the following one-liner: “Electricity, and finance, and sexuality, and happiness, and evolution, they all come about because of the amorous inclinations of matter.” (Philip Pullman)