The Sirens Of Titan
Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut
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...
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A stunning SF novel Republished by Gollancz with a specially commissioned introduction by Jasper Fforde Astounding new cover treatment to make this backlist series a must-have collection*The promotion includes the best-known names in SF: Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Alfred Bester, Richard Matheson, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Daniel Keyes and Joe Haldeman as well as Kurt Vonnegut. This really is the very best of classic SF 'A fine complex satire about the folly of mistaking good luck for thefavour of God' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 'A classic, ripe with wit and eloquence and a cascade of inventiveness' Brian Aldiss 'A very funny novel about the meaninglessness Of It All' Science Fiction:The 100 Best Novels
Born in 1922, Vonnegut was a prisioner of war in Dresden - an experience which formed the basis for his first novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, and underpins The Sirens of Titan.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Gollancz
- : 0.255
- : 01 August 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kurt Vonnegut
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 272
- : Science fiction
