Turing & Burroughs
Turing & Burroughs is an SF novel set in style of a 1950s-movie “alien invasion” story. Computer pioneer Alan Turing and the Beat author William Burroughs connect in Tangier and begin a love affair. The novel fuses SF themes with beatnik styles and attitudes, switching between Turing's and Burroughs's points of view.
Turing and Burroughs find a way to shapeshift into telepathic slugs, and society's reaction serves as a symbol of the 1950s horror of gays, artists, intellectuals and political outsiders.
As our heroes flee the feds, the story becomes a road novel. In traditional 1950s SF style, they head for a nuclear test site in Los Alamos, New Mexico. En route, Turing and Burroughs visit Mexico City and have a heavy encounter with Burroughs's murdered wife.
The story comes to a head with a thermonuclear blast and a final transcendence.
- Author
- Rudy Rucker
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Transreal Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780985827236
- Settings
- Tangier
- Genres
- fiction, humor
- Release date
- 2012
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