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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut

Published 1963 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston · 233 pages
Hugo Nominee 1964
Science FictionSynopsis
A writer researching what prominent Americans were doing the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima becomes entangled with the eccentric children of a deceased Nobel laureate who helped develop the bomb. His investigation leads him to the fictional Caribbean island of San Lorenzo and the discovery of ice-nine, a substance capable of freezing all water on Earth, culminating in an apocalyptic satire of science, religion, and human folly.
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9780385333481