The Sirens of Titan

Originally published: New York: Delacorte Press, c1959.

“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality.

When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spacecraft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and materialises when his waveforms intercept a planet. Winston now knows everything that has ever been and that will be.

Books about Die Sirenen des Titan (The sirens of Titan, dt.) Roman

America's wealthiest man succumbs to the irresistible charms of a lunar siren