Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his space craft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet, meaning that he gets home only once every 59 days. The author's works include "Cat's Cradle".
Posted by StuPC (1 year ago ) Men and beasts are chrono-synclastically infundibulated, Earth is almost invaded by Mars and distant aliens completely control the destiny of all Mankind for their own laudably laughable ends. But these are fairly minor asides in the story, which refuses to be drawn aside from the basic question of The Meaningless Of It All and the small stories of even smaller individuals who find the Meaninglessness hard to accept.
The narrative is uncluttered by the large dollops of realism that so many other writers often force upon us like extra helpings of vegetables, and the result is a twisting, weaving, ducking and diving fable of one man's - and by extension Man's - usage by the universe.
Posted by tcook@abctales.com (1 year ago ) This book originally came out under the name of Kilgore Trout - and it should be viewed by Vonnegut fans as a Kilgore Trout novel. That puts a whole new perspective on it - and makes the reading of it far more enjoyable.
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