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In 1952 he published his first novel, ''Player Piano'', in the dystopian science fiction genre for which he said he had taken the plot from ''Brave New World''. The novel featured a lengthy scene employing business promotional-style literature, a job at which he hinted he was offered in one of his other short stories.
In 1952 he published his first novel, ''Player Piano'', in the dystopian science fiction genre for which he said he had taken the plot from ''Brave New World''. The novel featured a lengthy scene employing business promotional-style literature, a job at which he hinted he was offered in one of his other short stories.
In 1959 he published a second dystopian science fiction novel, ''The Sirens of Titan'', which combined intense social commentary in outlandish scientific fantasy milieus.
In 1959 he published a second dystopian science fiction novel, ''The Sirens of Titan'', which combined intense social commentary in outlandish scientific fantasy milieus and dealt with questions about determinism, insignificance and the way expectations get lowered as a result.
''Mother Night'' was partially inspired by an event that occurred in 1961 that has been overlooked by his biographers: The pessimistic agnostic/atheist Vonnegut wrote a Christmas play for a large-circulation ladies journal. It was after that when he wrote that novel's plot about an American World War II spy's dismay at the outcome of having performed espionage as a propagandist for the Nazis, the plot being a way of carrying out a sort of performative penance toward the contrareity of his atheist beliefs with the Christmas writing assignment he had taken.
''Mother Night'' was partially inspired by an event that occurred in 1961 that has been overlooked by his biographers: The pessimistic agnostic/atheist Vonnegut wrote a Christmas play for a large-circulation ladies journal. It was after that when he wrote that novel's plot about an American World War II spy's dismay at the outcome of having performed espionage as a propagandist for the Nazis, the plot being a way of carrying out a sort of performative penance toward the contrareity of his atheist beliefs with the Christmas writing assignment he had taken.