The Euphio Question by Kurt Vonnegut. A short story from “The Monkey House”, (1968) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN of the Federal Communications Commission, I appreciate this opportunity to testify on the subject before you. I’m sorry—or maybe “heartsick” is the word—that news has leaked out about it. But now that word is getting around and coming…
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and…
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is the story of a small group of people with nothing in common who somehow get together for “The Nature Cruise of the Century,” only to find themselves stranded and the last hope for the human race. As the story unwinds, we find a world in crisis. A financial meltdown…
by Kurt Vonnegut – a Kilgore Trout story… “In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing” he said. “But nothing implies something, just as up implies down and sweet implies sour, as man implies woman and drunk implies sober and happy implies sad. I hate to tell you this, friends and neighbors,…
Now It Can Be Told by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – a Kilgore Trout story… The premise of the book was this: Life was an experiment by the Creator of the Universe, Who wanted to test a new sort of creature He was thinking of introducing into the Universe. It was a creature with the ability…
The following is an excerpt: The Sisters B36 by Kurt Vonnegut – a Kilgore Trout story… On the matriarchal planet Booboo in the Crab Nebula, there were three sisters whose last name was B-36. It could be only a coincidence that their family name was also that of an Earthling airplane designed to drop bombs…
8 Rules for Writing Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut . 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it…
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