The Ticket That Exploded
The Burroughs' book which, with `The Soft Machine' and `Nova Express', completes the classic `Cut-Up Trilogy'. `Earth was under attack, but by whom? The Insect People of Minraud? The Nova Mob? The "White Hunters"? Representatives of Hassan i Sabbah or the White Goddess?' `Language is the worn coin pressed silently into my hand. Inspector J. Lee of the Nova Police knew them by many names - but he only knew one way to stop them.' `The only weapon was silence: silence to say goodbye - by silence to say good. "You see, gentlemen, what we call history is the history of the word - and the word is a killer virus..."' A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire, `The Ticket that Exploded' completes Burroughs' classic `Cut-Up Trilogy'.
Author: William Burroughs
Format: Paperback, 176 pages, 128mm x 196mm, 150 g
Published: 2010, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Description
The Burroughs' book which, with `The Soft Machine' and `Nova Express', completes the classic `Cut-Up Trilogy'. `Earth was under attack, but by whom? The Insect People of Minraud? The Nova Mob? The "White Hunters"? Representatives of Hassan i Sabbah or the White Goddess?' `Language is the worn coin pressed silently into my hand. Inspector J. Lee of the Nova Police knew them by many names - but he only knew one way to stop them.' `The only weapon was silence: silence to say goodbye - by silence to say good. "You see, gentlemen, what we call history is the history of the word - and the word is a killer virus..."' A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire, `The Ticket that Exploded' completes Burroughs' classic `Cut-Up Trilogy'.
The Ticket That Exploded