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The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs

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In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

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  • Fiction
  • Gay men
  • Gay men -- Fiction
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Homosexuals masculine
  • Roman
  • Science fiction
  • Drug abuse
  • American Science fiction
  • LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall
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