Galápagos (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Grotesque literature, Near future and distant future fiction, Future history
- Subjects: Ghosts or apparitions, Human race, Pregnancy, South America or South Americans, Evolution, Survival, Viruses
- Locales: Ecuador, Galápagos Islands
Galápagos is narrated from a future one million years hence by the ghost of Leon Trout, son of Vonnegut's frequently used character, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout. Leon was beheaded while working as a shipbuilder, and his ghost inhabits a cruise ship bound for Guayaquil, Ecuador, to carry tourists to the Galápagos Islands.
While the ship is awaiting its maiden voyage, the world economic system breaks down under the burben of global debt, and World War III is triggered. Those events, however, which contain typical Vonnegut warnings about contemporary conditions,...
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