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ReviewCat's CradleIn the early 1930s, H.G. Wells visited General Electric's research facility in Schenectady. Here Wells was hosted by Nobel prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir, who suggested an idea for a story to Wells. His idea involved an alternative type of water....→ReviewSlaughterhouse-FiveOn January 12, 1944, German soldiers transported 150 American prisoners of war, including Private Kurt Vonnegut, from Stalag IV-B in Muhlberg to Dresden, thirty miles to the south. In Dresden, Vonnegut would witness the most destructive bombing of the war.→ReviewSo It Goes: The Unconventional Sci-Fi of Kurt VonnegutFive years after Kurt Vonnegut's death, Ted Gioia revisits Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan, and the unconventional sci-fi in them.→ReviewThe Sirens of TitanKurt Vonnegut's formative experiences included his mother's suicide (on Mother's Day, no less), the death of his sister, his custody of 4 orphaned nephews, financial struggles and thwarted ambitions. Then he treated his characters the way he had been treated....→