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• Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s 1952 novel, also deals with the limitations of science and technology.

• The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is Stephen Crane’s classic story of the Civil War that, like Vonnegut’s novel, portrays the horrors of war in an unromanticized fashion.

• Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) is a classic novel of World War I that, like Vonnegut’s novel, portrays German soldiers as ordinary people caught up in the horrors of war.

• Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead (1948) was one of the first major American novels based on its author's experiences in World War II.

• Tim O’Brien's Going After Cacciato (1978) was one of the first major American novels based on its author’s experiences in Vietnam.

• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is another example of science fiction as social criticism.

• Vonnegut’s 1962 novel, The Sirens of Titan, also features the Tralfamadorians.

• Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon (1966) uses both science fiction devices and an unusual narrative structure to tell a story of alienation and displacement.

• More Than Human (1953) is the most famous novel by science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, whom some have cited as a model for Kilgore Trout, Jr.

• Venus on the Half-Shell was published in 1975 with Vonnegut’s permission as a science fiction novel by ‘‘Kilgore Trout, Jr.’’ It was actually written by Philip Jose Farmer, a well-known science fiction writer who for much of his career, like Trout, wrote visionary works for little financial gain or popular recognition.