K. Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers due to his dry and ironic wit and his take on science fiction. With this being said, here are 2 clips, the first an excerpt from an unpublished and previously undiscovered short story from the 50s, the 2nd from a talk given by the esteemed K regarding killer lampreys and such from 1970. Enjoy.
Editor’s note: While reading through Kurt Vonnegut’s papers in the Lilly Library, at Indiana University, as they worked on the first comprehensive edition of his short fiction, Vonnegut’s friend Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz, a scholar of Vonnegut’s work, came across five previously unpublished stories. Klinkowitz dates “The Drone King,” one of those five, to the early 1950s, when Vonnegut hadn’t yet written a novel and was only beginning to publish short fiction. Complete Stories will be published this month by Seven Stories Press.
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3 for the price of one indeed. :)
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