Upon completing his bachelor's degree at Stirling, Bilton moved on to the University of Manchester where he completed his PhD on 'Word and Image in The Novels of Don DeLillo’ in 1995, after initially starting a project on Kurt Vonnegut and changing his mind midway through researching it.
Kurt Vonnegut based some of the material in his book Player Piano, on GE's meetings and activities at the island.
The name "Barnhouse Effect" originates from the short story Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut in which a professor, Arthur Barnhouse, develops telekinetic techniques.
The building's most famous tenant was the Dutton's Bookstore where for more than two decades authors such as Kurt Vonnegut and Isabel Allende held readings and signings.
It's also a concept album based on the SF stories of Theodore Sturgeon (More Than Human) and Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan); telling a story where the human race was transformed into a species named "Homo Gestalt" by computer networks, having a "Journey Through Your Body" theme.
Canary in a Cathouse is a collection of twelve short stories by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1961.
In books by Kurt Vonnegut and S. M. Stirling amongst others, alternative theories are suggested and explored as part of the larger plot.
The title of the album is a reference to Billy Pilgrim's epitaph in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Player Piano, a faction revolting against the rigidly hierarchical, mechanized United States of the future calls itself the Ghost Shirt Society.
Ōta is a bibliophile—reportedly reading over 100 books a year—and some of his favorite authors include Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai (of whom Ōta's father was a student), many of them holding some similitude to his often absurdist view of the world.
The director himself has stated that the film was inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Alain Resnais, among others.
Recently it has been announced that screenwriter James V. Hart wrote an adaptation of The Sirens of Titan, which Kurt Vonnegut approved of before he died.
This action was met with severe criticism from abroad including authors such as Kurt Vonnegut and John Updike.
His other films include the 1992 anti-war film about a group of American soldiers in the Ardennes just before and during the Battle of the Bulge, A Midnight Clear, as well as Mother Night (adapted from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut), Waking the Dead, and the 2003 Robert Downey Jr. film The Singing Detective.
The painting is mentioned several times in the novel Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut.
Of interesting note, with the exception of the above mentioned title track, all of the songs on the album are named after Kurt Vonnegut works.
Other recordings include work by the Russian conceptual artists Komar and Melamid, music written according to poll of American music taste, resulting in the statistically Most Wanted and Unwanted Songs, two CDs by writer Kurt Vonnegut, and Mandeng Eletrik, a collaboration between Wofa, tribal musicians from a village in Guinea that lacks electricity and running water, with American R&B musicians including Bernie Worrell and Will Calhoun.
The book's unconventional tone and unpredictable nature have elicited comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and Francesca Lia Block.
Hand has been compared in style to American author Kurt Vonnegut.
Amis writes in the Afterword that he had a "certain paragraph" from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (1969), in mind.
The album's title is a reference to an essay by Kurt Vonnegut (collected in Fates Worse Than Death) in which Vonnegut compares commentators on the intellectual and moral decline of society to the Royal Astronomer in The White Deer by James Thurber, who believes that the stars in the night sky are going out one by one, but in fact this is because he is slowly going blind.
Scribd readers have access to books by famous authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Paolo Coelho, and Meg Cabot.
Sulfathiazole is mentioned in chapter 104 of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle and New Dictonary, and several of his short stories.
Contributors have included leading Western writers, journalists and intellectuals such as Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John le Carré, Trevor Griffiths, Stuart Holland and Kurt Vonnegut.
In Kurt Vonnegut's short story Armageddon in Retrospect, published in his final book of the same name, Verdigris is featured as the headquarters of the United Nations Demonological Investigating Committee, or UNDICO.
Stockmayer is mentioned as a friend of the author in the novel Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, and is described as a distinguished pianist and a good skier.
"Happiness by The Kilowatt", "It Was Fear of Myself That Made Me Odd", and parts of "No Transitory" are based on short stories by Kurt Vonnegut from his collection entitled Welcome to the Monkey House.
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Fernetz was born on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los Angeles, and within months she was a guest on the Showtime series, Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House.
The school board ordered books considered obscene including Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Deliverance by James Dickey assigned to the sophomore English class be confiscated and burned in 1973.
According to founding Gnod member Paddy Shine, Tesla Tapes takes its name from Nikola Tesla; band members cite such other non-musical influences as Kurt Vonnegut, David Simon, Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake.
Leitmotifs is also said to be present in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and also in the works of Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Thomas Mann, Chuck Palahniuk, and Julian Barnes.
McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.
The association launched The Coffee Achievers advertising campaign in 1980, that featured prominent celebrities such as David Bowie, the band Heart, Cicely Tyson, Jane Curtin, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ken Anderson.
The collection has been widely praised by authors such as Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut.
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, the character Franklin Hoenikker was known as Secret Agent X-9 in high school.
The most prominent series is called "The Red Book", which features authors like Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Günter Grass, Ian McEwan, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, John Irving, Mikhail Bulgakov and many others, there are currently over 80 books in the series.
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity (ISBN 1-58322-543-9) is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about Mark's experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery.
In Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim finds an abandoned copy of William Bradford Huie's book and reads through it while in a waiting room.
American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. prominently alludes to the sect in his early novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, when the title character claims that he is a member.