Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into achrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and onlymaterializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet.As a result,he only gets home to Newport,Rhode Island,once everyfifty-nine days and then only for an hour.But atleast,as a consolation,he now knows everything that has ever happenedand everything that ever will be. He knows,for instance,that his wifeis going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant,the richest man in theworld. He also knows that on Titan - one of Saturn's moons - is an alienfrom the planet Tralfamadore,who has been waiting 200,000 years for aspare part for his grounded spacecraft...A finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award,The Sirens of Titanwas Vonnegut's second novel. It received wide acclaim,and played withideas of free will and predestination,themes he continued to explore inhis later works. In 2015,he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hallof Fame.-'The Sirens of Titan is marvellous. It's so funny it made me want to cry'- Infinity Plus'A classic,ripe with wit and eloquence and a cascade of inventiveness'- Brian Aldiss'His best book...He dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life,but to answer it'- Esquire
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781399617222Number of pages: 272Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 24 mm
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The Sirens of Titan is a tour-de-force of sci-fi literature
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