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  • Published: 22 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141976051
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

The Soft Machine

The Restored Text





With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his skills to defeat a team of priests, who are using mind control to produce their own private slave race. Dead soldiers, African street urchins, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history and science all feature in Lee's terrifying adventure.

A surreal space odyssey, The Soft Machine is the first book in Burrough's innovative 'cut-up' trilogy - followed by Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded - and a ferocious assault on hype, poverty, war and addiction in all its forms.

  • Published: 22 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141976051
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

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