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  • Published: 22 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141976044
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

The Ticket That Exploded

The Restored Text





For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, the third and final novel in Burroughs' prophetic and revolutionary 'cut-up trilogy', now in a newly restored edition

Inspector Lee and the Nova Police have been forced to engage the Nova Mob in one final battle for the planet. This is Burroughs's nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of Johnny Yen's chicken-hypnotizing and green Venusian-boy-girls, of ad men and conmen whose destructive language has spread like an incurable disease; a virus and parasite that takes over every human body.

One of Burroughs's most approachable works, The Ticket That Exploded is the climax of his innovative 'cut-up' Nova trilogy - following The Soft Machine and Nova Express - and is an enthralling and frightening image of the future.

  • Published: 22 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141976044
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

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