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ID: 745531
Title: 2 B R 0 2 B
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrator: Peter Coates
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:16:16
Language: English
Release date: 01-19-24
Publisher: Bookwire USD
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Summary:
'2 B R 0 2 B' is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction for January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced '2 B R naught 2 B' and references the famous phrase 'to be, or not to be' from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that 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 the name and attributes it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, but the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from Vonnegut's short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House.
The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, a number which is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide. In short, for someone to be born, someone else must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 745531
Title: 2 B R 0 2 B
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrator: Peter Coates
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:16:16
Language: English
Release date: 01-19-24
Publisher: Bookwire USD
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Summary:
'2 B R 0 2 B' is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction for January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced '2 B R naught 2 B' and references the famous phrase 'to be, or not to be' from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that 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 the name and attributes it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, but the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from Vonnegut's short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House.
The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, a number which is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide. In short, for someone to be born, someone else must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident.
Contact: [email protected]