Editing The Soft Machine (section)

==Characters==
The characters of the ''Soft Machine'' fall into three categories:
* Characters from the previous novels ''Junkie'', ''Queer'' and ''Naked Lunch'': ''Dr Benway'', ''Clem Snide'', ''Sailor'', ''Bill Gains'', ''Kiki'', and ''Carl Peterson''.
* Characters associated with the Nova Trilogy:
** The Nova Mob: ''Mr Bradly Mr Martin'', ''Sammy the Butcher, Green Tony, Izzy the Push, Willy the Rat/Uranian Willy, agent K9?''
** The Nova Police: ''Inspector J. Lee''
** Alien races: The Venusians/Green Boys (''Johnny Yen, Contessa di Vile''), The Uranians/Blue heavy metal boys.
*Characters recycled from the work of other authors:
** ''Jimmy Sheffields'' from the novel ''Fury'' by [[Henry Kuttner]]
** ''Salt Chunk Mary'' from the novel ''You Can't Win'' by [[Jack Black (author)|Jack Black]]
** ''Danny Deaver'' from poem with the same title by [[Rudyard Kipling]]
** ''Billy Budd'' and ''Captain Verre'' from the short-story ''[[Billy Budd (novel)|Billy Budd]]'' by [[Herman Melville]]