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
The Sirens of Titan
β Scribed by Kurt Vonnegut
- Publisher
- ePubLibre
- Year
- 1959
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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 Titanβone of Saturn's moonsβis 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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**"[Kurt Vonnegut's] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." --**_**Esquire** _ **Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's** _**_The Great American Read_** The Sirens of Titan_ is an outrageous romp through space
Preliminaries; Copyright; Contents; eForeword; Chapter 1 Between Timid And Timbuktu; Chapter 2 Cheers In The Wirehouse; Chapter 3 United Hotcake Preferred; Chapter 4 Tent Rentals; Chapter 5 Letter From An Unknown Hero; Chapter 6 A Deserter In Time of War; Chapter 7 Victory; Chapter 8 In A Hollywood
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
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
Preliminaries; Copyright; Contents; eForeword; Chapter 1 Between Timid And Timbuktu; Chapter 2 Cheers In The Wirehouse; Chapter 3 United Hotcake Preferred; Chapter 4 Tent Rentals; Chapter 5 Letter From An Unknown Hero; Chapter 6 A Deserter In Time of War; Chapter 7 Victory; Chapter 8 In A Hollywood