Box 4

Scope and Contents Extracts from Burroughs' text with notations and collage elements by Cortez, mounted on drawing paper pad. In 1979, Cortez asked Burroughs and his assistant, James Grauerholz, for the film rights for the book and was granted permission. The film was never realized. Burroughs' book is a sci-fi novella which began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of Alan E. Nourse's novel 'The Bladerunner.' Burroughs' treatment has been described as a closet screenplay. It is set in the...