The Soft Machine: The Restored Text

*The Soft Machine* is Burroughs’ original cut-up novel, first in an experimental trilogy that includes *Nova Express* and *The Ticket That Exploded*. A surreal space-age odyssey and a total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines, the book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space where nothing is true and everything is permitted. Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history of *The Soft Machine* ‘s writing and rewriting, demolishing the myths of Burroughs’ chance-based writing methods and demonstrating for a new generation the significance of his greatest experiment.