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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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