Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens Of Titan

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The Sirens of Titan is a cosmic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, which was published in 1959. His second book, involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. A lot of the novel revolves around a Martian invasion of Earth Plot. Malachi Constant is the richest man in future America. He possesses extraordinary luck that he attributes to divine favor which he has used to build upon his father’s fortune. He becomes the centerpoint of a journey that takes him from Earth to Mars in preparation for an all out interplanetary war, to Mercury with another Martian survivor of that war, back to Earth to be pilloried as a sign of Man’s displeasure with his arrogance, and finally to Titan where he again meets …show more content…

Throughout the novel, he predicts events; unless he is deliberately lying, the predictions come true. It is in this state that Rumfoord established the “Church of God Utterly Indifferent” on Earth to unite the planet after a Martian invasion. It is also in this state that Rumfoord, materializing on different planets, instigated the Martian invasion, which was designed to fail spectacularly. On Titan, the only place that Rumfoord can exist permanently as a solid human beings, Rumfoord befriends a traveller from Tralfamadore who needs a small metal component to repair his damaged spaceship. Salo, the Tralfamadorian explorer, is a robot built millennia earlier to carry a message to a distant galaxy. His spaceship powered by the Universal Will to Become or UWTB, the “prime mover” which makes matter and organization wish to appear out of nothingness. A small component on Salo’s spacecraft breaks and strands him there in the Sol System for over 200 millenia. He requests help from Tralfamadore, and his fellow Tralfamadorians respond by manipulating human history so that primitive humans evolve and create a civilization in order to replacement part. Rumfoord’s encounter with the chrono-synclastic infundibulum, the following war with Mars and Constant’s exile to Titan were manipulated via the Tralfamadorian’s control of the UWTB. Stonehenge, the Great Wall of China and the Kremlin are

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