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| Author: | Burroughs, William |
| Title: | Nova Express |
| Publisher: | Grove, New York |
| Pages: | 187 pp. |
| Date: | 1964 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Life styles |
| Annotation:Told in the manner of an hallucinatory interplanetary cops-and-robbers story with the Nova Police tracking down the Nova Mob in a futuristic drug-ridden society, this novel takes Burroughs' macabre humor about addiction and homosexuality into a dimension of social criticism and parody. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: neutral. | |
| Author: | Burroughs, William |
| Title: | The Soft Machine |
| Publisher: | Grove, New York |
| Pages: | 182 pp. |
| Date: | 1966 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Life styles |
| Annotation:Burroughs applies an even more surrealistic literary technique in this novel than in Naked Lunch the content is a series of drug hallucinations related not by content, but by style of narration. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: neutral. | |
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