The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. MASTERWORKS): The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams

The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. MASTERWORKS): The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams

by KurtVonnegut (Author)

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 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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Gateway
Published: 09 Sep 1999

ISBN 10: 1857988841
ISBN 13: 9781857988840
Book Overview: The second novel of the acclaimed author of SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 and most recently, TIMEQUAKE.

Author Bio
Born in 1922, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, during the saturation bombing which devastated the city near the end of the Second World War, an experience which formed the basis for the novel which made him a world-wide bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five.