Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1) 2 B R 0 2 B
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2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide...
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In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination.
The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, a number which is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide. In short, for someone...
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The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student.
Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course, he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything...
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Así se presenta Walter F. Starbuck, el protagonista de esta novela, y así comienza a contar su vida, inextricablemente unida a la historia de los Estados Unidos. Desde las ejecuciones de Sacco y Vanzetti hasta la voracidad de las multinacionales —sin olvidarse, por supuesto, de la Segunda Guerra Mundial—, Kurt Vonnegut se pasea con total libertad por el lado oscuro del siglo XX norteamericano y construye una sátira magistral sobre el poder...
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Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut's words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. This expanded second edition includes more than sixty pages of further thoughts from Kurt (whose good advice wasn't limited to graduation speeches). As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like...
6) Payasadas
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Refugiado en las ruinas del Empire State, Wilbur Rockefeller Swain, médico de profesión, monstruo de nacimiento y el último presidente de los Estados Unidos, repasa la historia de su vida y la de su país como si fueran una sola. Y en ese repaso no puede faltar Eliza, su hermana gemela: "No éramos idiotas... Éramos algo nuevo. Éramos neandertaloides". Un día, los gemelos descubren que, cuando sus cuerpos se tocan, sus mentes se funden en una...
7) Cuna de gato
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En este libro nada es cierto. Jonás (o John) se propone investigar qué estaban haciendo los norteamericanos más destacados el día en que se arrojó la bomba en Hiroshima. Las cartas que intercambia con el hijo menor del doctor Felix Hoenikker, uno de los padres de la bomba atómica, lo zambullen en una intriga familiar que oculta la más terrorífica contribución de la ciencia a la humanidad: el hielo nueve.
Las respuestas a todas las preguntas...
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Disponible para los lectores por primera vez, "La cartera del cretino" es una colección de siete piezas nunca antes publicadas de Kurt Vonnegut, uno de los más grandes escritores del siglo XX. Sardónicos e inquietantes, estos seis relatos de ficción, y un pequeño ensayo, son la esencia de Vonnegut, con una sátira penetrante y un ojo infalible para la intrascendencia obscena de la vida. Estas historias trazan las vidas humanas y los deseos mundanos,...
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From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for...
11) Sun Moon Star
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Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus-as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the newborn Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most important to his life-presented in new and surprising ways. A powerful departure from Vonnegut's more adult work, Sun Moon Star gives readers a rare glimpse of the writer's...
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Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer makes this a historic and joyous occasion.
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Before that Golden Age drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the publications. By the time he'd sold his third, Vonnegut quit GE to join the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner to write short stories at fifteen-hundred dollars a piece. Vonnegut himself has selected the best of these early stories for this audio collection, and has written a new preface and afterword for...
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Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be.
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These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written almost a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of what over population was going to do to society after aging was conquered and a simple daily dose of "anti-gerosone" would keep you forever the same age. Would Gramps EVER take 'That Big Trip Up Yonder', or would his hordes of descendants...
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One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse- Five and Breakfast of Champions. Now this iconic figure shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process:...
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Welcome to the year 2185 where aging has been conquered and people can live forever thanks to the miracle of Gerasone! Take a dose every day and never age again. This story showcases Gramps Ford, At 182 the head of the large Ford family who are all crammed into one apartment and subject to the constant badgering and irrational demands of the oldest Ford. He controls what will happen when he dies and so controls them. Every one of the many members...
19) Timequake
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According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2: 27 p. m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything...
20) Cat's Cradle
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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.