<p>In <i>The Soft Machine</i> William S. Burroughs begins an adventure that will take us into the dark recesses of his imagination a region where nothing is sacred nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred hype poverty war bureaucracy and addiction in all its forms Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.</p><p>A total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines by writing and fixing our life scripts Burroughs’ original “cut-up” book was itself rewritten in three different forms. This new edition of <i>The Soft Machine</i> clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history of its writing and rewriting demolishes the myths of his chance-based writing methods and demonstrates for a new generation the significance of Burroughs’ greatest experiment.</p>