Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007): "So it Goes"
Kurt Vonnegut - one of my favourite authors - has died.
I'll never forget watching the film Between Time and Timbuktu when I was about 14 or so.
It was part of a late, late night BBC2 series of science fiction films - but because I was "home alone" and trusted - I used to stay up late watching all the films that I should would never normally have seen ..
The next day I couldn't remember the name of the film - but I remembered one thing - the name of "Vonnegut".
A quick trip to the library later - and knowing how to use the library catalogue index and all - I had a pile of his books in my hand.
It took me years to find out the name of the film I had watched that night, it wasn't until they published a "book of stills" from the movie (which - regretfully - I lent out and no longer own) - that I found out the name of the movie which has set me on this journey.
But by then I had learnt the word of Vonnegut - Ice Nine - Tent Rentals on Mars - Schlachthof Fünf - and most of all - my favourite science fiction writer of all time - Kilgour Trout.
I am a fan of Kilgour Trout to this day - because he was the first Sci-Fi author who taught me not to take things too seriously - (as a young 14 yr old SciFi fan might do on occasion) - and he made me laugh.
Kurt Vonnegut - 1922 - 2007 - "So It Goes"
I hope they put it on his tombstone ....
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