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Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel Kindle Edition

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What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughs’s wife from the dead, and tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos? A wild beatnik adventure, compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twists—and a bad attitude throughout.

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Rucker's novels have ... an angle of attack reminiscent ofthe Thomas Pynchon of Gravity's Rainbow and the Terry Southern of TheMagic Christian. Turing & Burroughs is all of that and more.Much more. It is Rudy Rucker's most ambitious novel, and while perhaps not aperfect success, it is a success. ... Rucker being Rucker, the central story line isnot even half the bizarre, fascinating, scientific, sexual, and historicalcontent of this delightfully humorous yet somehow thematically serious novel.
          --- Norman Spinrad,review in Asimov'sSF Magazine
Rucker accomplishes a significant feat by mashing up GregBear-level speculations with a kind of On the Road vibe, full ofslang-laden hipster contempt for the Establishment and a desire to break freeof stifling conventions. ... The Eisenhower-era conformity and general societalsuspicion of weirdos is a perfect adventure matrix for these ultimateoutsiders: chimeric, telepathic slugs.
          --- Paul DiFilippo, review in LocusOnline

Rucker's "Beatnik SF Novel" deftly combines historiccharacters and wild flights of imagination in a spin-off of our world'shistory. ... Rudy Rucker has produced an SFnal tour de force. ... Theprose in Turing & Burroughs can flow like a drug-stoked dream.
          --- Faren Miller,review in Locus Magazine

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Rudy Rucker is a writer, amathematician, and a computer scientist. He's the author of over thirtypublished books. Rucker received two Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunknovels, and also writes science-fiction in a realistic style that hecharacterizes as transreal. In addition to novels, Rucker has published anumber of nonfiction works of popular science, covering topics such as thefourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009BZQD74
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transreal Books (September 16, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 16, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 667 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 249 pages

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Rudy Rucker has written forty books, both pop science. and SF novels in the cyberpunk and transreal styles. He received Philip K. Dick awards for for the novels in his "Ware Tetralogy". His "Complete Stories," and his nonfiction "The Fourth Dimension" are standouts. He worked as a professor of computer science in Silicon Valley for twenty years. He paints works relating to his tales. His latest novel "Juicy Ghosts" is about telepathy, immortality, and a new revolution. Rudy blogs at www.rudyrucker.com/blog

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genre-bending

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2013

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Absolutely loved this book. It was a fresh new take in the Sci-Fi genre, blending an alternate history with scientific theory and beatnik prose. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

The book is written from two perspectives: that of Alan Turing, famous for the Turing Test and the father of the computer, and that of William Burroughs, whose manic drug-riddled ramblings made sense and became coherent in the context of the story. It's like Naked Lunch lapsed over into dinner at a biotechnology seminar with computer scientists, poets, and abstract artists.

Rudy Rucker's writing is very readable (accessible to anyone), fast-paced, and fun. He characterises all the people in the story exceptionally well. He must have put a lot of research into the histories to fabricate such an oddly believable yet out-of-this-world feeling reality. Very creative!

I read this book quickly and would recommend it to those looking for a different (new) kind of Science Fiction. It was released September, 2012, so it's hot off the presses which is also fun for me -- to read new works.

I have not read any of Rudy Rucker's other major works and am not sure how I've missed reading him for so long. I am definitely going to be checking-out more of his books, maybe Postsingular and Hylozoic or the the Ware Tetralogy, next.

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Michele Lynn

The beauty of the completely weird.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2018

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This is a truly weird book. I -love- truly weird books. Alan Turing fakes his suicide, escapes an assassination attempt, and then becomes a weird shapeshifting semi-psychic mutant full of debauchery, then goes on an "On The Road"-like adventure. Who knew the "real" story of Turing was so ridiculously cool? Who knew he hung with the likes of beat poets, experimental musicians, and rogue scientists? It's a glorious, fun read that takes you on one hell of a surreal journey.

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Mary Glass

Touring the burrows of a wonderfully twistable mind

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2015

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There are those with vibrant imagination and those who go past that to discover whole new spectrums. Meet Rudy Rucker. I feel like I sneaked onto a rollercoaster that I wasn't really tall enough for. Drained and dazed and can't wait to sneak back in line. Alan Turing and William Burroughs hold the fate of the world in their hands like a blob of silly putty. What could go wrong? And speaking of blobs............

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Turing & Burroughs an item? How cool . . .

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2013

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. . . this book is a stroke of genius. There are so many wildcards and alternate history free-for-alls that the mind - hey man, it's blown!

If you're a Beat poet fan you'll like it. If you are and Alan Turing fan you'll like it. If you are both with a dollop of scifi whimsy, you'll love it. Rudy Rucker seamlessly weaves beat slang and attitude with heavy scientific thought processes. Doesn't hurt that the characters are infected with - well, I won't spoil it for you.

Read it STAT.

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Mick Collins

pure Rucker

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2013

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Wacky, bizarre, totally natural "what if?"

Chortling, snickering, bellylaughing all da way through

Who'd 'a thunk it. Found things that are apparently factual but I didn't know (after Googling some "could that be true?"s, like Turing actually did some research in mathematical biology and morphogenesis after WWII (which play a very large role in the book), and Burroughs shot his wife accidentally (in as much as drunken mistakes are accidental; in the book the mistake is resolved)

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The Beat Goes On

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2014

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A re-imagining of mid 20th century Cold War history in which mad scientists and Beat writers battle an alien invasion even while fending off government agents persecuting them for their gender preferences. Very telling. Very entertaining.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2019

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A journey through Rudy Rucker's wacky imagination, twisting and turning, redeveloping character and quest, existence in an alternate head space.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2012

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this was a pretty good story, very interesting. it also made me want to look up some of the people mentioned since these were actual historical people.

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Mr. N. C. Mitchell

The only thing it's missing is an editor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 13, 2013

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Another sweet romp from Rucker, not dissimilar in its pace and plot to earlier novels 'Mathematicians In Love', 'The Hollow Earth' and, especially 'Master of Space and Time' (with which it shares little, slug-like characters that have an ultimately unhealthy effect on the hosts they feed off). Here Rucker posits a parallel universe pairing of two great 20th Century minds (both, clearly, influential in Rucker's life) and lets the adventure ensue. Lots of whacked-out realisations of scientific theorems and a very personalised view of love between two men that is simultaneously quaint and wannabe-progressive (i.e. clearly written by a straight dude).

What's really annoying about the book is that there are tons of mistakes and repetitions of chunks of text and it's clear that there's been no concerted attempt made to edit the novel. I would have done a better edit job than whoever peered over this - Rudy, just say the word! I guess, as it's self-published, that later editions may clean-up some of those mistakes, you never know.

All in all, though, a real blast and highly recommended, of course.

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