I was thinking about your question, and the more I thought about it, the more a particular name started to climb to the top of the pile. And it may be a name you won't expect.

That name? Vonnegut.

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I think we're all familiar with Harrison Bergeron (especially lately), but if you haven't read Cat's Cradle, do yourself a big favor and run on down and grab a copy.

"It's wampeters and karases all the way down!"

There's another one where the protagonist keeps finding himself on Jupiter, but I'm having trouble remembering it. Maybe I'll take my own advice. I mean, most of his books you can read in an afternoon.

Update: Sirens of Titan, and I was way off.

The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. Much of the story revolves around a Martian invasion of Earth.

I was thinking about your question, and the more I thought about it, the more a particular name started to climb to the top of the pile. And it may be a name you won't expect.

That name? Vonnegut.

?!

I think we're all familiar with Harrison Bergeron (especially lately), but if you haven't read Cat's Cradle, do yourself a big favor and run on down and grab a copy.

"It's wampeters and karases all the way down!"

There's another one where the protagonist keeps finding himself on Jupiter, but I'm having trouble remembering it. Maybe I'll take my own advice. I mean, most of his books you can read in an afternoon.