@booklet {8915, title = {{\textquotedblleft}2 B R 0 2 B{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Worlds of If Science Fiction }, volume = {11.6}, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 694-96 with an editor\’s note on 694; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 447-51 with an editors\’ note on 446; in\ Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind\’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 62-70; in Novels \& Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 770-77, with a Note on the Text (819-23); and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz \& Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 900-05.

}, month = {January 1962}, pages = {58-65}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which to keep population in check under the Federal Bureau of Termination someone must die for each birth and only one child in a multiple birth will be allowed to live. The title is said to represent \“To Be or Not to Be\”.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007)} }