The Resource The sirens of Titan
The sirens of Titan
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The item The sirens of Titan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The sirens of Titan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A cold and malevolent universe is all the humanity can ever know. In the near future, Vonnegut's scientific researchers learn that the substance of which that galaxy is made, IceT, assures that human life will ever be Emily Dickinson's "zero at the bone." Any belief in manifest human destiny or compassion is doomed. Reissued in hardcover after SLAUGTHERHOUSEFIVE as part of a reevaluation of the importance of Vonnegut's work
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The sirens of Titan
- Title
- The sirens of Titan
- Statement of responsibility
- by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Subject
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- trueEthics
- trueScience fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueSpace warfare
- truePurpose in life
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueSatirical fiction
- trueSpace flight to Mars
- truePersonal conduct
- Indiana -- Fiction
- trueMartians
- Science fiction
- trueSpace vehicles
- trueHuman nature
- trueLife on other planets
- trueReligion
- trueFate and fatalism
- trueRich men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A cold and malevolent universe is all the humanity can ever know. In the near future, Vonnegut's scientific researchers learn that the substance of which that galaxy is made, IceT, assures that human life will ever be Emily Dickinson's "zero at the bone." Any belief in manifest human destiny or compassion is doomed. Reissued in hardcover after SLAUGTHERHOUSEFIVE as part of a reevaluation of the importance of Vonnegut's work
- Summary
- America's wealthiest man succumbs to the irresistible charms of a lunar siren
- Award
- Great American Read, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 060704
- Cataloging source
- ORL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Dewey number
- 813/.5/4
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ4.V948
- LC item number
- Si2
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Indiana
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The sirens of Titan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 16924723
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9789997408716
- Lccn
- 61006895
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm01390308
- (OCoLC)1390308
- Label
- The sirens of Titan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 16924723
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9789997408716
- Lccn
- 61006895
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm01390308
- (OCoLC)1390308
Subject
- trueEthics
- trueFate and fatalism
- trueHuman nature
- Indiana -- Fiction
- trueLife on other planets
- trueMartians
- trueMen/women relations
- truePersonal conduct
- truePurpose in life
- trueReligion
- trueRich men
- trueSatirical fiction
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueSpace flight to Mars
- trueSpace vehicles
- trueSpace warfare
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