One of my literary heros, Kurt Vonnegut, has shuffled off this mortal coil, as they say. Cory says it better than I can. Vonnegut’s short story collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, was one of those books that opened my world. My first significant sci-fi, my first read by someone who’d be considered a major, […]
One of my literary heros, Kurt Vonnegut, has shuffled off this mortal coil, as they say.
Cory says it better than I can.
Vonnegut’s short story collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, was one of those books that opened my world. My first significant sci-fi, my first read by someone who’d be considered a major, modern literary figure, my first encounter with short stories. Pieces like Harrison Bergeron, Monkey House, and Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog made huge impressions on my young mind; possibly the still influence my thinking to this day (certainly I still refer to Bergeron often.)
One more hero gone off into the sunset. Hey, Kurt? Say hey to Hunter for me, k?
Vonnegut was a favorite writer of mine. Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons, Breakfast of Champions, Hocus Pocus… He will be missed.