Player Piano

Player Piano

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Vonnegut's first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. A human revolt against the machines which control life was arranged by the machines themselves to prove the futility of such resistance. --This text refers to the Digital edition.

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First novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1952 and reissued in 1954 as Utopia 14. This anti-utopian novel employs the standard science-fiction formula of a futuristic world run by machines and of one man's futile rebellion against that world. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Player Piano,Kurt Vonnegut,The Dial Press,0385333781,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Fiction / General,Modern fiction

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