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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 248
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780985827236
  • Settings
  • Tangier
  • Genres
  • fiction, humor
  • Release date
  • 2012