Kurt Vonnegut

With Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book form in the tradition of A Wrinkle in Time and Fight Club 2. Billy Pilgrim has …

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 …

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York TimesIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is …

"Titano sirenos" - antrasis Kurto Vonneguto romanas. Jis pasirode 1959 m., praejus septyneriems metams po pirmojo jo romano "Pianola". Sikart viskas nutiko gan neiprastai, mat is pradziu romana minkstais virseliais isleido mokslines fantastikos leidykla. Po netiketos knygos sekmes ne tik tarp fantastikos megeju, bet …

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this …

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? …

Tolima ateitis. Planeta perpildyta zmoniu, kurie, naudodamiesi naujausiais medicinos laimejimais, gali gyventi amzinai. Taciau jiems uzdrausta daugintis. O kad dingtu noras tuo uzsiimti, jie privalo gerti "etiskas" gimstamuma kontroliuojancias piliules, sekso malonuma padarancias beskoni. Didziausia ateities zmoniu …

“[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book ReviewEliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt …

Pianola - pirmasis Kurto Voneguto romanas, išleistas 1952 m. Antiutopinio romano istorija vyksta netolimos ateities visuomenėje, kur viskas yra mechanizuota, žmogaus darbas yra nereikalingas. Ši paplitusi mechanizacija sukuria konfliktą tarp turtingos aukštesnės klasės - inžinierių ir vadybininkų - ir žemesnės klasės …

A Man Without a Country is an essay collection published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that make up this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differences between men and women. Most prevalent in …