I've just heard that Kurt Vonnegut, author of Timequake, Slaughterhouse 5 and others, has died aged 84 in New York. This is very sad news to me, not because I'm a huge Vonnegut fan (I've only read Slaughterhouse 5 (twice) and Timequake (this year), but because it was he that finally inspired me to at least begin my own book.
Rest in peace, mate. (George W. will have no juristiction whatsoever where you're going, you can be sure of that.)
As for Kilgore Trout -- what shall become of him?
(More news of Vonnegut's death can be found at this BBC web page and a much better tribute can be found here!.)
Thursday, April 12, 2007
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