The Sirens of Titan (1959) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Malachi Constant: An extremely rich playboy and one of the story's main characters.
• Unk: Malachi's other identity.
• Beatrice Rumsfoord: A poet and frigid aristocratic wfie.
• Chrono: Unk's son.
• Noel Constant: Malachi's emotionally distant father, who made his fortunes through sheer luck.
• Winston Niles Rumsfoord: Through an accident, he becomes able to see the future and exists in a different way from other people.
• Kazak: Winston's dog.
• Salo: A mechanical being from an alien world.
• King Boaz: One of the real commanders in the Army of Mars
• Winston Niles Rumfoord: Add a description of this character.
• C. Horner Redwine
• Harry Brackman
• Roberta Wiley
• George M. Helmholtz
• Bobby Denton
• Stony Stevenson
• Ransom K. Fern
• Beatrice Rumfoord
• Earl Moncrief
• God Almighty
• Phoebe
• Runifoord
• Elmo
• Martian
• Waltham Kittredge
• Corporal Bert Wright
• Schliemann
• Bee
• Martin Koradubian
• Henry Brackman
• Florence Whitehill
• Miss Fenstermaker
• Marlin T. Lapp
• Crowther Gomburg
• Papa Boaz
• Mr. Jonah K. Rowley
• Boaz In Sarah Horne Canby

Quotes edit see section history

• “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”

  Malachi Constant

• “It took us that long to realise that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

  Malachi Constant

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• “The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,” she said, “would be to not be used for anything by anybody.”

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• “I was a victim of a series of accidents,” he said. He shrugged. “As are we all,” he said.

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• everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.”

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• Take Care of the People, and God Almighty Will Take Care of Himself.

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• “You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh, fine, fine—couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”

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• What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She had overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

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• There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.

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• “Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

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•    “Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Mars
• Newport
• Hollywood
• Tralfamadore
• Earth
• Winston Sea
• Betelgeuse
• Saturn
• United States
• U.s.a.
• California

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Glossary edit see section history

• Grass Carpet: Carpet fashioned from living grass.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Drowned World, and followed by Emphyrio.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Hugo Award (Finalist, 1960: Novel)
• Seiun Award (1973: Best Foreign Language Novel)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3572.O5 S57 2006
• Dewey: 813

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( V ) › Vonnegut, Kurt
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Adventure

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