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The Sirens Of Titan: The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams
Kurt Vonnegut
S.F. Masterworks, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Classic science fiction, Parodies & spoofs
Classic Science fiction from one of the world's most famous authors, soon to be a Tv show from Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty)
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When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour.
But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan - one of Saturn's moons - is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft . . .
A finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award, The Sirens of Titan was Vonnegut's second novel. It received wide acclaim, and played with ideas of free will and predestination, themes he continued to explore in his later works. In 2015, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
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'The Sirens of Titan is marvellous. It's so funny it made me want to cry' - Infinity Plus
'A classic, ripe with wit and eloquence and a cascade of inventiveness' - Brian Aldiss
'His best book . . . He dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it' - Esquire
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Praise for The Sirens Of Titan: The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams
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A classic, ripe with wit and eloquence and a cascade of inventiveness - Brian Aldiss
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A work of great scope and staggering originality ... It's an experience not to be missed - Books and Bookmen
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A very funny novel about the meaningless of it all - Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels
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This is a real delight
Kurt Vonnegut
Born in 1922, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, during the saturation bombing which devastated the city near the end of the Second World War, an experience which formed the basis for the novel which made him a world-wide bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five.
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