The Ticket That Exploded is a novel by William S. Burroughs first published in 1962 by Olympia Press and later published in the United States by Grove Press in 1967. It is the second installment in a trilogy of books created using the cut-up technique,...
HELICOPTER passenger John Kane is one of the luckiest men in Ireland. He escaped unscathed when the machine came down in a field and burst into a fireball. And who could blame him, if he got straight on the phone and told...
Exploding Ants. By Joanne Settel. 1999. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. An Imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division (1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020). 40 pp. Hardback $16. (ages 9-12). The subtitle of this delightful book is "Amazing...
In the main Burroughs is faithful to [the theme he expressed in both The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express]: a coalition of three life-forms infiltrated Earth three thousand years ago, after ruining another planet. Their strategy is to take advantage of human weaknesses and conflicts, exacerbate them and feed on the energy thus released. The soft spots manipulated by these alien agents disguised as human beings (the nova mob), are sex, drugs and power; in this we see Burroughs' obsessions take sh...
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