2 B R 0 2 B
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
2BR02B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be"...
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2BR02B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes a story by this name, attributing it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, although the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from the short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781466247468 (1466247460)
ASIN: 1466247460
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 26
Edition language: English
One of the disadvantages of electronic downloads is that you lose physically obvious metadata - by which I mean the size of the literary object you've acquired. This is a short story of 13-15 pp., probably originally published in a magazine. It has all the hallmarks of a good science fiction story o...
It still haunts me. And that ending--aargh!
completely forgot i read this a couple of months ago ...very creepy indeed.
Blew my mind. Will have to read another of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories and/or books.This will totally suffice as a review, reading this review takes approximately as long as reading the story yourself.
I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this story. It is a simple tale of planetary population control and it is one of the most sardonic tales I've ever read. You must read this one for yourself.Devlin