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Nova Express

By William S. Burroughs
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs digital book - Fable

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Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these “control addicts” before it’s too late.

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“A bit of a letdown after being floored by The Soft Machine a couple weeks ago and Naked Lunch last year. It did improve as it went, though; and I think I "cracked" it toward the end. The Soft Machine, to me, was an extremely visceral read, like surreal body horror. It was fixated on body fluids, weird sex acts, and organic/synthetic tinctures. Obsessed, really. If that was the dissolving of the body, Nova Express could be seen as a disassembling of the mind. There are passages fixated on the body and sex, but overall it's much more concerned with the senses, perception, and identity. Bodies dissolve into other forms. People change into other people (even different species) ((even aliens)). There are instructions on how to take on another's identity. There are instructions on global mind control. Nova Express still qualifies as experimental fiction, but it's much more coherent than The Soft Machine. (Those are comparative statements, mind.) It also has less urgency, less momentum. I look forward to finishing the trilogy, but I hope the last is more in line with the first. (PS: I quite liked the meandering reference to Joyce there at the end)”

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