Turing & Burroughs
A Science Fiction, Humor book. The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Rudy Rucker, 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.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 248 pages
- ISBN: 9780985827236 / 0
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Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods. Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs // America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding. Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs // The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart. Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs //
A quick read that's pretty enjoyable. The story is surprisingly straight-forward given the oddities within: cryptology/electronics genius Alan Turing escapes his government's attempt to assassinate him, in the process creating a sort of symbiotic lifeform that ends up wanting to take over the world. The main side effect of infection... I suppose you could call this an inverse alien invasion novel, where the aliens do not come from outer space, but are the result of a scientific experiment by computer genius Alan Turing, who is on the run from the FBI, and invents a kind of symbiotic parasite he puts on his face, and which assumes the facial features of his murdered... This book is a wild ride, maybe a little too wild for some. I felt it was a lot like a 50s monster / horror movie, but seen from the monsters or aliens point of view, and about their horror. However, to get to the meat of the story one must accept a lot of odd situations due to the sexual preferences of the main characters. Actually,...
