Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
Rucker's "Beatnik SF Novel" deftly combines historic  characters and wild flights of imagination in a spin-off of our world's  history, 1954-1955. ...Turing &  Burroughscan be enjoyed as a mad romp ... that brings together and transforms  two characters from history in outrageous ways.   In less than 250 pages--room enough for a host of voices--Rudy Rucker has  produced an SFnaltour de force. ... The  prose inTuring & Burroughscan  flow like a drug-stoked dream.          --- Faren  Miller, review inLocus MagazineThe book opens in 1954, with a gracefully channeled version  of Alan Turing--that historically real cybernetic icon of misunderstood genius. The scene is set with vibrant verisimilitude... But Turing's life soon goes  counterfactual, and he's on the lam to Tangier where he hooks up with William  Burroughs, notorious louche Beatnik junkie and scribbler of transgressive  fiction. ... Rucker accomplishes a kind ofOn the Roadvibe, full of slang-laden hipster contempt for the Establishment and a desire to break  free  of stifling conventions.          --- Paul Di  Filippo, review inLocus Online