The Sirens Of Titan

The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams

Kurt Vonnegut

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Gateway Publishers
31 October 2023

Science fiction

Series: S.F. Masterworks

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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

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Imprint: Gateway Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9781399617222
ISBN 10: 1399617222
Series: S.F. Masterworks
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.