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- adjective Of or pertaining to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007),
American novelist andsatirist , or to his works.
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Book reviewers have categorized your previous novels as wild Vonnegutian satires full of fantastical and even surrealistic events.
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Palmer's third novel combines hard SF – the quantum physics of teleportation – with sardonic, Vonnegutian satire, and the result is a gloriously irreverent, violent and often funny tale of murder, genocide and unrequited love.
Dark Matter, Clowns at Midnight, Damage Time and Version 43 - reviews Eric Brown 2010
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Now I don't mean to suggest that our current moment is anything like this Vonnegutian nightmare.
Richard Laermer: The Last Decade & Mediocrity: A Look Ahead Richard Laermer 2010
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Now I don't mean to suggest that our current moment is anything like this Vonnegutian nightmare.
Richard Laermer: The Last Decade & Mediocrity: A Look Ahead Richard Laermer 2010
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To this end, I have put together the following proposed slate of what I am calling Vonnegutian Immersions, designed to bring out the inner Vonnegut in all of us ...
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There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.
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Now I don't mean to suggest that our current moment is anything like this Vonnegutian nightmare.
Richard Laermer: Today's Question: How'd it All Get So Mediocre? 2008
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This is beyond apocalyptic -- it's downright Vonnegutian.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2006
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This is beyond apocalyptic -- it's downright Vonnegutian.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mac 2006
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And indeed, I suspect, in Light, which is rather more Vonnegutian, especially at the redemptive end, than she has allowed herself to realise.
Is There Someone at the End of This Rope? A Long Day's Struggle With M. John Harrison Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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