Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, was published in 1952. It’s a dystopia with a wry sense of humour, which is atypical for the genre. But dystopia and farce both extrapolate events to disastrous and absurd degrees. Vonnegut makes highly effective use of this point of crossover.
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Walden Two: Book of the Month February 2023
Walden Two: it’s supposed to be a utopia…
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Book of the month for January 2023 is How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell.
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