TY - SER
KW - engineers
KW - automation
AU - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
AB - Ten years after a fictitious Third World War, American workers are mostly replaced by machines, and engineers and managers are deeply divided from a now nearly-useless working class. When Paul Proteus, a super engineer, is offered a promotion as manager of his corporation’s flagship, he struggles to determine where his loyalties lie.
C1 - Near future
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
C4 - Science Fiction; Literary; Utopian/Dystopian; Satire; Comedy
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Ten years after a fictitious Third World War, American workers are mostly replaced by machines, and engineers and managers are deeply divided from a now nearly-useless working class. When Paul Proteus, a super engineer, is offered a promotion as manager of his corporation’s flagship, he struggles to determine where his loyalties lie.
PB - Charles Scribner's Sons
PP - New York
PY - 1952
RN - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007), born in Indianapolis, studied at Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Tennessee before finally earning a degree from the University of Chicago. He served in World War II, where he was captured by the Germans.
EP - 295 p.
TI - Player Piano
ER -