Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction When
Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is
converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some
other planet. As a result he only gets home to Newport Rhode Island once every fifty-nine
days and then only for an hour. But at least as a consolation he now knows everything that
has ever happened and everything that ever will be. He knows for instance that his wife is
going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant the richest man in the world. He also knows that
on Titan - one of Saturn's moons - is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore who has been
waiting 200 000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft . . . A finalist for the
1960 Hugo Award The Sirens of Titan was Vonnegut's second novel. It received wide acclaim and
played with ideas of free will and predestination themes he continued to explore in his later
works. In 2015 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. - ' The Sirens of Titan
is marvellous. It's so funny it made me want to cry' - Infinity Plus 'A classic ripe with wit
and eloquence and a cascade of inventiveness' - Brian Aldiss 'His best book . . . He dares not
only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life but to answer it' - Esquire