Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut · 1968
Vonnegut's short fiction: satire, sci-fi, and sadness in equal measure. The story "Harrison Bergeron" alone is worth the price.
The case against
Magazine work, much of it, sold to the slicks to finance the novels, and Vonnegut's own preface is cheerfully upfront about that. For every Harrison Bergeron there are three formula pieces whose twist endings you can see from the first page. Worse, the title story treats sexual assault as deprogramming, a premise that has aged about as badly as a premise can.
Short Stories · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
if this one calls to you, so will these →
