#kurt vonnegut
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961. Contains “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Cover by Chesley Bonestell.
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I tell you, even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
I tell you, even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
I tell you, even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
I tell you, even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What’s it about?
It’s about an optometrist who, as a result of exposure to a low-rate science fiction author in a psychiatric hospital, believes he has been abducted by aliens and can travel through time.
What’s it really about?
In perhaps the biggest disjoint between the first and second paragraphs of these blog posts, it’s about the cruel nature of war, in particular the experience of prisoners of war in Nazi Germany.
What? How did we get from there to here?
Unlike most works of science fiction, the science fiction element is almost irrelevant; it’s nothing but a scaffolding to construct the real story: what his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany taught him about human nature. Although if you’ve read Game of Thrones and you can’t handle a supernatural narrative device used to recount the inhumanity of war, you should probably present yourself to the relevant authorities at first light.
What should I say to make people think I’ve read it?
“So it goes.”
What should I avoid saying when trying to convince people I’ve read it?
“It’s not as good as Slaughterhouse Four.”
Should I actually read it?
Yes. It will make you want to be a better person.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut(November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007), author of Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969).
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Friday Links!
Great looking one-day symposium: Queer Utopias.CFP: Camps, (In)justice, and Solidarity in the Americas – Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camps. CFP: Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance. CFP: SFRA Panels at ASLE 21. CFP: Migration and Exile in Science Fiction. CFP: Black Feminism on the Edge. CFP: The Routledge Handbook…
GSV24: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”!
GSV24: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”!
The last bonusisode of season one is one last quick spin through immortality, 1954’s “The Big Trip Up Yonder” / “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”…
Stay tuned for the very long, very fun season one finale, coming soon!
GSV23: GALÁPAGOS!
This is the one the podcast has always been building towards: Gerry, Aaron, and special guest Brian Thill take on Galápagos. Does it hold up? Is it secretly the best Vonnegut novel? Can Kurt wriggle out of being canceled one last time? Only our big brains know for sure…
Lost Semester Linkblogging!
For a variety of reasons, this was an extremely busy semester, and I simply wasn’t able to keep up with my open tabs (I had several hundred open at one point!). An irrecoverable browser crash killed any possibility of ever doing even an omnibus record of what I’ve been reading and thinking about — but I do have a tiny number of highlights from the semester that I will link here just to close the…
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird
Bluebeard
“Oh, happy Meat. Oh, happy Soul. Oh, happy Rabo Karabekian.”
kar*a*bek*i*an (,kar-a-‘bek-ē-an), n. (from
Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th cent. painter).
Fiasco in which a person causes total de-
struction of own work and reputation
through stupidity, carelessness or both.
hand drawn in my moleskine/colored digitally
my twelfth attempt at illustrating one of Kurt Vonnegut’s books
(originally posted HERE on Aug 30th 2011)
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Jailbird
“You couldn’t help it that you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed- so you were a good man just the same.”
hand drawn in my moleskine/colored digitally
my eighth attempt at illustrating one of Kurt Vonnegut’s books
(originally posted HERE on July 9th, 2011)
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies–:
” ‘God damn it. you’ve got to be kind’ “ - Eliot Rosewater
*R*
hand drawn in my moleskine/colored digitally
my fourth attempt at illustrating one of Kurt Vonnegut’s books
(originally posted HERE on Apr. 28, 2011)
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Fiction:
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She is Sorry by Fredrik Backman
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Lovely War by Julia Berry
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors Sonali Dev
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets to the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Emma by Jane Austen (Especially if you haven’t seen the movie yet)
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Odyssey by Homer
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A Moveable Fest by Ernest Hemingway
Non-Fiction:
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
Material Girl, Mystical World by Ruth Warrington
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Essence of Happiness by The Dalai Lama
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
First We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Though Anxiety by Sarah Wilson
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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