<p>First published on the anniversary of kurt vonneguts death, armageddon in retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanitys tendency towards violence imbued with vonneguts trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral non-fiction recollection of the destruction of dresden - to a painfully funny short story about three soldiers and their fantasies of the perfect meal</p>

Armageddon in Retrospect

Literature & Fiction

VONNEGUT

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Or Pearls Before Swine

Kurt Jr

Delta

Breakfast Of Champions

“Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age.” So begins ‘2 B R 0 2 B’, a clever short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, the author of far more famous works such as Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and many others. The story first appeared in the January 1962 issue of the pulp sci-fi magazine Worlds of If. Its modest utopian beginnings quickly open up to an underlying dystopia: the only way to maintain the perfect balance on this seemingly perfect far-future Earth is to limit the population to precisely forty million souls. But old age has been beaten. To maintain eternal happiness, should birth control fail, one must acquiesce to either infanticide or suicide – choose your pleasure. Those few adults who decide they want to die are encouraged to call the Federal Bureau of Termination’s hotline at 2 B R 0 2 B (pronounced 2 B or naught 2 B) and make an appointment for euthanasia, thus opening the door for the birth of a new human. No one is forced into death, unless you count social pressure, although there is plenty of that in a society where the most admired man on the planet is Dr Hitz, “responsible for setting up the very first gas chamber in Chicago.”

2 B R O 2 B

Kurt

DESAYUNO DE CAMPEONES

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