I this book because...
I re-read this book about the end of the world so that Joe and I could talk about it on our podcast, Re-Creative. It’s my favorite Kurt Vonnegut novel, filled with savage observations about the stupidity of human nature, all the while being so compassionate towards the characters – even the ones making bad decisions.
It’s the kind of satire and science fiction I aim to create myself. And if you’re only going to read one Vonnegut book, this should be it!
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One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
Experiment.
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.
Solution.
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to…