Description
By (author) Vonnegut Kurt
Short /annotation:
Classic Science fiction from one of the world”s most famous authors, soon to be a Tv show from Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty)
:
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into achrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and onlymaterializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet.As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once everyfifty-nine days and then only for an hour.
But atleast, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happenedand everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wifeis going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in theworld. He also knows that on Titan – one of Saturn”s moons – is an alienfrom the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for aspare part for his grounded spacecraft . . .
A finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award, The Sirens of Titanwas Vonnegut”s second novel. It received wide acclaim, and played withideas of free will and predestination, themes he continued to explore inhis later works. In 2015, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hallof Fame.
–
”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
Review quote:
The Sirens of Titan is a tour-de-force of sci-fi literature
Biographical note:
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.
Review quote: previous work:
A classic, ripe with wit and eloquence and a cascade of inventiveness – Brian AldissA work of great scope and staggering originality … It”s an experience not to be missed – Books and BookmenA very funny novel about the meaningless of it all – Science Fiction: 100 Best NovelsThis is a real delight
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.