From
the inside flap
“The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous
romp trough space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth,
Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds
with a beautiful woman at his side. Of
course there’s a catch to the invitation─and a prophetic vision about the
purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.”
Review
Titan is one of Vonnegut’s wilder tales─a sometimes
unfettered, brutal satire about religion, politics and the class system, lensed
through a science fiction framework. While it is less tightly edited than other
works he has written─it runs a bit long, maybe thirty to fifty pages─it is
still a good, funny and stinging take on the nature of the tools of social
control, as well as human nature: worth reading, this.
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