{"id":4267,"date":"2012-09-18T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2012-09-18T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:56:30","slug":"turing-burroughs-out-in-ebook-and-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/turing-burroughs-out-in-ebook-and-paperback\/","title":{"rendered":"Turing &#038; Burroughs Out in Ebook and Paperback!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new book is out today!<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Turing &amp; Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<table width=\"650\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\/photos\/burroughsonpage.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n      William Burroughs<\/td>\n<td width=\"300\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\/photos\/turingonpage.jpg\"  width=\"300\"\/><br \/>\n      Alan Turing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can browse the complete novel <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\/turingandburroughstext.html\">free online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And you can buy it in ebook and paperback formats via the links on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transrealbooks.com\/#turingandburroughs\" target=\"blank\">Transreal Books <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transrealbooks.com\/#turingandburroughs\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\/photos\/turing&#038;burroughscoverflat.jpg\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\n<code>Cover design by Georgia Rucker Design. <\/code><\/p>\n<p><em>Turing &amp; Burroughs <\/em>is an SF novel set in style of a 1950s-movie \u201calien invasion\u201d\u009d story. Computer pioneer Alan Turing and the Beat author  William Burroughs connect in Tangier and begin a love affair.   The novel fuses SF themes with beatnik styles and attitudes, switching between Turing&#8217;s and Burroughs&#8217;s points of view.<\/p>\n<p>Turing and Burroughs find a way to shapeshift into telepathic slugs, and society&#8217;s reaction serves as  a symbol of the 1950s horror of gays, artists, intellectuals and political outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>As our heroes flee the feds, the story becomes a road novel. In traditional 1950s SF style, they head for a  nuclear test site in Los Alamos, New Mexico. En route, Turing and Burroughs visit Mexico City and have a heavy encounter with Burroughs&#8217;s murdered wife Joan.<\/p>\n<p>The story comes to a head with a thermonuclear blast and a final transcendence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\/photos\/79_askuggerspointofview.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><b><em>Links<\/em>: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on the<a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\"> Turing &#038; Burroughs page<\/a>, which will be changing over time.<\/p>\n<p>Delve into the  illustrated book-length <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/pdf\/turing&#038;burroughsnotes.pdf\" target=\"blank\">  <em>Notes<\/em><\/a> for <em>Turing &amp; Burroughs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Preview the writer Nas Hedron&#8217;s <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/turingandburroughs\/ruckerhedroninterview.pdf\">interview with me<\/a> about <em>Turing &#038; Burroughs<\/em>. I&#8217;ll be running the interview as a post later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to recent podcasts of my talks about the novel, and to readings from it. Click on the icon below to access .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\/podcastbanner_600.jpg\"  alt=\"\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/emailrudyrucker.htm\" target=\"blank\">Email me<\/a> if  you&#8217;re interested in doing a review or an online interview  about <em>Turing &amp; Burroughs<\/em> for your zine or blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new book is out today! Turing &amp; Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel William Burroughs Alan Turing You can browse the complete novel free online. And you can buy it in ebook and paperback formats via the links on Transreal Books . Cover design by Georgia Rucker Design. Turing &amp; Burroughs is an SF novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}