Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel

Rucker, Rudy

ISBN 10: 0985827238 / ISBN 13: 9780985827236

Published by Transreal Books, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
• Publisher: Transreal Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985827238
• ISBN 13: 9780985827236
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His books include "Postsingular "and "Spaceland".