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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
burroughs contribution was, well, the coks & spurts & turds-- which are fine actually but don't carry a whole novel very well. the problem with reading only things published in the past 50 years is that one loses perspective in a huge way.
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I think it's fair to say that (at least in terms of style) Burroughs wasn't the first at most of what he did. He's often discussed as a pinnacle of postmodernist writing, which sort of celebrates that anyway. However, I think he's best looked at as a sci-fi author that, along with P.K.D. and J.G. Ballard, managed to transform the genre in such a way that allowed it to ultimately transcend its origins.