William Burroughs' Quartet of Science Fiction Novels as Dystopian Social Satire

'''Palumbo, Donald. "William Burroughs' Quartet of Science Fiction Novels as Dystopian Social Satire."' Extrapolation'' 20.4 (Winter 1979): 321-29.

Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, Nova Express, and Ticket that Exploded. Ticket presents contemporary life "as a film that is rerun again and again, trapping the human in amber, negating any possibility of real freedom." This repetition is associated by Burroughs with Hell.