Kurt Vonnegut
1) Cat's cradle
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb
4) Galápagos
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The author takes you back one million years--to A.D. 1986 and the beginning of the human race with the descendants of a small group of survivors of an illfated cruise ship to the Galapagos Archipelage. The narrator is the ghost of a Vietnam veteran.
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Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. An otherwise typical soldier in WWII, without warning, he jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is an ophthalmologist at home in suburbia; deep in World War II Europe, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden; on the planet Tralfamadore, being held captive by aliens in an intergalactic zoo--accompanied by a porn star. In the end, he learns that the many tragic...