Vonnegut, Kurt

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Slapstick

or, Lonesome no more! : a novel
1976
In a future time, a former President of the United States writes his memoirs, including an explanation of how, as President, he was forced to sell the original Louisiana Purchase lands to the King of Michigan.

Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade

a duty-dance with death
1994
Former soldier Billy Pilgrim uses the time-travelling abilities given to him during his alien abduction to revisit the bombing of Dresden in World War II.

While mortals sleep

unpublished short fiction
2011
An anthology of sixteen previously unpublished works includes selections from the iconic writer's early literary career and is complemented by more than a dozen of his original works of art.

The sirens of Titan

an original novel
1988
The richest, most depraved man in America blasts off in his private space ship for parts unknown with the one beautiful woman capable of resisting him.

Armageddon in retrospect

and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace
2008

Player piano

1980
Describes a future America in which computers solve all your problems, machines give you everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society.

Bagombo snuff box

uncollected short fiction
1999
A collection of twenty-three short fiction stories by Kurt Vonnegut which have never been published before in book form, selected by the author.

Timequake

1997
Intersperses a story about a glitch in the space-time continuum that forces people to relive the ten years between February 17, 1991 to February 13, 2001 exactly as they did the first time, with Vonnegut's thoughts and experiences during the summer and autumn of 1996.

Bluebeard

1988
An autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, an abstract expressionist artist, who acquired the largest collection of abstract expressionist paintings in private hands.

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