Date:  6 Dec 89 04:24:34 PST (Wednesday)
Subject: Author Lists: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 8-Oct-94

Most of Kurt Vonnegut's "real" SF was published by the middle 60's.  And
those books are all quite good: "Player Piano", "The Sirens of Titan",
"Cat's Cradle", and "Slaughterhouse-Five" are all very good SF.  After
that, however, things get complicated.  In remarks widely discussed in
the SF community, he publicly stated he wanted out of the label of
"Science Fiction" writer.  The repercussions that had is beyond the scope
of this introduction.  Since then he's written books that at least skirt
the edges of SF (on both sides).

And on a bibliographic note, I should mention the book "Venus on the
Half-Shell". When it was first published, the author was listed as
"Kilgore Trout".  Kilgore Trout is a Kurt Vonnegut character; a hack SF
writer who appears in several of Vonnegut's books.  This confused some
people, who thought that it must have been written by Vonnegut. The novel
was actually written by Philip Jose Farmer.  So don't be fooled.

[C] == Story Collection.
[O] == Omnibus.  Includes other books.
[= ...] == Also known by this other title.

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.	(U.S.A., 11/11/1922- )	G
	(awards: Hugo 1973, IFA [3rd] 1953)

Between Time and Timbukto (1972) [play]
Canary in a Cat House (1961) [C]
Cat's Cradle (1963)
Cat's Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five (1990) [O/3N]
Deadeye Dick (1982)
Galapagos (1985)
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) [play]
Hocus Pocus (1990)
Kurt Vonnegut (1980) [O/6N= Player Piano + The Sirens of Titan + Mother Night + Cat's Cradle + Slaughterhouse-Five + Breakfast of Champions]
Player Piano (1952) [= Utopia 14]
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade (1969)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) [C]
Welcome to the Monkey House / Palm Sunday / An Autobiographical Collage (1994) [O/2C]

Non-Genre Fiction
Bluebeard (1987)
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Jailbird (1979)
Mother Night (1962)
Palm Sunday (1981) [C]

with Ivan Chermayeff
	Sun, Moon, Star (1980) [YA]

Nonfiction
Fates Worse than Death (1991)
Nothing is Lost Save Honor (1984)
Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons (1974) [C]

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