Why Burroughs’ Naked Lunch is a science fiction classic
People worship Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, but don’t give it its props as a science fiction classic, argues Rudy Rucker on his blog. Rucker, whose new novel about Alan Turing includes Burroughs as a character, describes Naked Lunch as “Transreal SF.” Transreal SF, which Rucker has talked about before in various forums, is “a form of…