The Sirens of Titan
| Title | The Sirens of Titan |
| Year for Search | 1959 |
| Authors | Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.(1922-2007) |
| Date Published | 1959 |
| Publisher | Dell |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Satire. Depicts all of human history as brought about to deliver a spare part to a stranded alien spaceship on Titan. Various dystopias. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961; and rpt. as the Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Richard Powers and with an “Introduction” (vii-ix) by Vonnegut. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Jasper Fforde (ix-xiii); and in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 309-532, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (828-29). |
| Info Notes | Adapted as a play by Stuart Gordon (b. 1947) that was first performed April 6, 1977, by the Organic Theatre Co. in Chicago. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Author Note | (1922-2007) |
| Full Text | 1959 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). The Sirens of Titan. New York: Dell. Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961; and rpt. as the Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Richard Powers and with an “Introduction” (vii-ix) by Vonnegut. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Jasper Fforde (ix-xiii); and in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 309-532, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (828-29). It was adapted as a play by Stuart Gordon (b. 1947) that was first performed April 6, 1977,by the Organic Theatre Co. in Chicago. L, PSt Satire. Depicts all of human history as brought about to deliver a spare part to a stranded alien spaceship on Titan. Various dystopias. |
