First in a trilogy of science fiction novels: The Soft Machine , The Ticket That Exploded , and Nova Express . The Interstellar War of the Sexes.
"In The Soft Machine , William S.Burroughs... turns the sexy, 'scientifically' controlled mass-media society inside out. With biting use of the American vernacular, Burroughs makes a devastating attack on the power structure, violence and hypocrisy in contemporary society". [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1967]
"In this work I am attempting to create a new mythology for the space age". --William S.Burroughs.
"It is an absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy". --Terry Southern (in Book Week ).
"Burroughs presents an Earth inhabited by bizarre aliens, perverse doctors, brain police, seedy criminals, and verbal virus. This is the original cyberpunk novel." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Highly recommended.
