How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

* The fellowship felt among Hoosiers was referred to in Kurt Vonnegut's book, Cat's Cradle, where it is said that this fellowship is an example of a granfalloon.

American author Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five is based on his first hand experience of the raid as a POW.

The phrase " So it goes " is repeatedly used in reference to death, a deliberate echoing of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five has, since its original publication, been challenged in libraries and schools on the grounds that the word is used occasionally by the soldiers in the story.

* Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel Slaughterhouse-Five is partially based on his personal experience of the Dresden firestorm.

Vonnegut's parallel to < cite > The Pilgrim's Progress </ cite > is deliberate and evident in Billy's surname.

Ranked the 18th greatest English language novel of the 20th century by Modern Library, it is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work.

Kilgore Trout is also a main character in Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions.

The Tralfamadorians counter Vonnegut's true theme: life, as a human being, is only enjoyable with unknowns.

* In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a doomsday substance called ice-nine is created with the capability to freeze all the water on Earth.

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Bluebeard, Sidi Barrani is the site where Dan Gregory ( the tormenting magazine illustrator and Nazi sympathizer ) is killed on December 7, 1940, when 30, 000 British troops defeat nearly 80, 000 Italian soldiers.

Most notably is Vonnegut's framing of the novel as a historical document.

Granville Hicks, reviewing Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, was reminded of The Iron Heel: " we are taken into the future and shown an America ruled by a tiny oligarchy, and here too there is a revolt that fails.

* Bokononism, a fictional religion from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, where one major point is that human happiness is more important than truth, even scientific truth.

Trout appears in several of Vonnegut's books, in which he performs a variety of roles: he acts as a catalyst for the main characters in Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Slaughterhouse-Five, while in others, such as Jailbird, and Timequake, Trout is an active character who is vital to the story.

Trout's appearance in Galápagos is somewhat problematic for Vonnegut's continuity because the novel explicitly states that Kilgore dies before 1986, when the events of the novel take place.

Another recent seminar is entitled " Narrations Strange ", and involves a close study of madness ; Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Nabokov's Pale Fire are analyzed in order to understand the minds of unreliable narrators in celebrated literature.

This particular ghost is the immortal spirit of Leon Trotsky Trout, son of Vonnegut's recurring character Kilgore Trout.

In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five pneumatic tubes are used as a way to transport information from one place to the next when covering news articles.

* This collection includes all but one of the twelve stories in Vonnegut's previous short story collection Canary in a Cathouse, released 1961.

The book was once considered to be one of Kurt Vonnegut's all-time favorites.

In Vonnegut's Galápagos, Mary Hepburn was a High School teacher in Ilium, and in Cat's Cradle, it is the former home of Dr. Felix Hoenikker — one of the fathers of the atomic bomb — thus, it is the town that John visits to interview Dr. Asa Breed, Hoenikker's former supervisor.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls Before Swine, the first of Vonnegut's novels to feature the character of Eliot Rosewater, is also the one in which he is the most prominent.

Deadeye Dick is set mostly within fictional Midland City, Ohio, which is also the setting for one of Vonnegut's other seminal works, Breakfast of Champions.

" Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five quotes part of the introduction to this section: " History in its solemn page informs us that the crusaders were but ignorant and savage men, that their motives were those of bigotry unmitigated, and that their pathway was one of blood and tears.

The term " Fata Morgana " is referenced in Kurt Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle as one of the low points of some particularly overwrought prose in a fictional text.

* " Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals "-this is Vonnegut's own reflection over the time he spent and the man he was when writing these short stories.

* The 2003 film The Recruit features a computer virus named Ice-9 in tribute to Vonnegut's ice-nine that would erase hard drives and travel through power sources which are not protected, possibly erasing the hard drive of every computer on Earth.

In Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim finds an abandoned copy of William Bradford Huie's book and reads through it while in a waiting room.

The painting is referred to in a scene of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five where the protagonist Billy Pilgrim walks through a POW camp near Dresden.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Donald Morse identified a difference between Bluebeard and other Vonnegut's novels, which was that the protagonist was happy and satisfied at the end of the narrative.

The book uses irony and sentimentality, which were to become a hallmark developed further in Vonnegut's later works.

Though much of the novel has to do with Vonnegut's own experiences during the firebombing of Dresden, Vonnegut continually points out the artificiality of the central narrative arc which contains obviously fictional elements such as aliens and time travel.

Distortions in time are central features in many of Kurt Vonnegut's non-linear novels, the most famous of which is perhaps Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five becoming " unstuck in time ".

Like many of Vonnegut's novels, Hocus Pocus is not organized in a traditional linear fashion, and has a plot centered around a major event which is alluded to early, and heavily foreshadowed until the final chapters.

He has written numerous scripts that have not been produced, most famous of which are the adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Louis Sachar's Holes.

Vonnegut's association with the short story was far from over, however, and he later prepared and introduced a new collection, Welcome to the Monkey House ( 1968 ), which included eleven of the twelve stories from Canary in a Cathouse and fourteen others.

Most prevalent in the text, however, are those essays which elucidate Vonnegut's opinions on politics, and the issues in modern American society, often from a decidedly humanistic perspective.

The prayer also appears in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and at the beginning of Sinéad O ' Connor's song Feel so different.