The Sirens of Titan
Author: Kurt Vonnegut. Read: February 23–28, 2025.
Details
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Published: 1959
Pages: 326
Started: February 23, 2025
Finished: February 28, 2025
Short Review
Vonnegut writes the kind of science fiction that doesn't feel like science fiction. It deserves its own genre. The Sirens of Titan is about a man and his dog getting stuck in a chrono-synclastic infundibulum. It’s about Mars invading Earth, billionaires getting their brains wiped, and The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. It’s even about a message from aliens in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It's funny, it's thought provoking, and it's so goddamn imaginative. There are elements here common to other Vonnegut books, like religion in Cat's Cradle and free will in Slaughterhouse Five, but the major theme is the meaning of life. To this, Vonnegut ventures a guess... and a pretty good one, at that.
