Vonnegut, Kurt,
Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; London: Gollancz, 1963.
SCIENCE FICTION. 'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness
9780241951606 (paperback)
End of the world--Fiction
Science fiction
Satire
Humorous fiction
PS3572.O5 / C3 2011
Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; London: Gollancz, 1963.
SCIENCE FICTION. 'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness
9780241951606 (paperback)
End of the world--Fiction
Science fiction
Satire
Humorous fiction
PS3572.O5 / C3 2011