September 21, 2020

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (Italian edition)

The novel “The Sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegut was published for the first time in 1959.

Winston Niles Rumfoord was traveling in space when he was sucked into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, a kind of space-time distortion. The consequence is that Rumfoord and his dog Kazak, who was traveling with him, periodically materialize in various places. During a time when he materialized on Earth, Rumfoord talks to Malachi Constant, the richest man in the USA, and tells him a series of events destined to take place in the future.

Unk is a Martian soldier, a broken from an officer rank whose memory has been erased. The treatment is not complete and Unk still has some fragments of his past. Together with his fellow soldiers, he’s preparing for the launch of the entire Martian fleet with the aim of invading the Earth.