The Sirens of Titan: A Novel

a cold and malevolent universe is all the humanity can ever know. In the near future, vonnegut's scientific researchers learn that the substance of which that galaxy is made, icet, assures that human life will ever be emily dickinson's "zero at the bone. " any belief in manifest human destiny or compassion is doomed. Reissued in hardcover after slaugtherhousefive as part of a reevaluation of the importance of vonnegut's work.