Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969

This book contains essays written by 9 writers in review of the original Vonnegut book.
Harold Bloom - Introduction
Peter J. Reed - The End of the Road
 Peter G. Jones - At War with Technology: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
James Lundquist - The "New Reality"
Robert Merrill and Peter A. Scholl - The Requirements of Chaos
Lawrence R. Broer - Pilgrim's Progress
Leonard Mustazza - Adam and Eve in the Golden Depths: Edenic Madness
William Rodney Allen - Slaughterhouse-Five
Jerome Klinkowitz - Emerging from Anonymity

Science Fiction defined:  fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
Original Slaughterhouse-Five contains story about bombing of Dresden Germany near end of WW 2, extraterrestrials Tralfamadorians,  and a backwards running war movie ending with Adam & Eve. Science Fiction at its best.

Completed reading this review book on 5/21/2017.



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