The Sirens of Titan

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<p><b>A deep and meaningful masterpiece of science fiction, full of heart and mind-bending ideas. A true classic, Vonnegut will make you laugh and have you contemplating the meaning of life</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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 . . .</p><p><b>Readers love <i>The</i> <i>Sirens of Titan</i>:</b><br><br><b>'A truly exceptional work by a truly exceptional author expressing some exceptionally powerful ideas'</b> Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</p><p><b>'Vonnegut uses the absurd to explore what makes us human . . . I recommend this book for any fan of Vonnegut or [Douglas] Adams'</b> Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</p><p>'The Sirens of Titan is <b>primarily a parody of trashy pulp science fiction novels</b>, a boisterous, chucklesome book . . . In this sense, The Sirens of Titan, twenty years early, precedes and foreshadows (and, I would say, is superior to) Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</p><p>'There are plenty of space travels in The Sirens of Titan but it isn't a space opera . . . <b>It is a spaced out satire, a cosmic comedy of manners</b>' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</p><p>'I went into this expecting a science fiction/satire but instead <b>I got an emotionally moving story about the meaning of life</b> by none other than <b>one of the gre

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781857988840

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 129 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Verlag / Hersteller

Orion Publishing Group