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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story written in 1962 that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been "cured" and population control is mandated and administered by the government.

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Interesting utopian/dystopian (?) short story.

Jairo.Escudero

on 26/2/13

Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B, written in 1962, describes a similar dystopian world to Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, with the added twist that, upon finishing, one is not sure if Vonnegut's world is dystopian or utopian! In it, he forecasts a future where old age is "cured" and, as he puts it in the first line of the story, "Everything was perfectly swell." No prisons, no wars, no poverty, no diseases. How could anyone not like it? As you read on, however, the tone becomes i... leia mais