TY - BOOK AU - Vonnegut,Kurt TI - Cat's cradle SN - 9780241951606 (paperback) AV - PS3572.O5 C3 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Viking KW - End of the world KW - Fiction KW - Science fiction KW - Satire KW - Humorous fiction N1 - Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; London: Gollancz, 1963 N2 - 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 ER -