Famed U.S. author Kurt Vonnegut (image) passed away yesterday at the age of 84. Vonnegut's style of writing mixed science fiction with satire and dark comedy in novels like Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse-Five. Nonetheless, one of his best science fiction novels was 1963’s Cat’s Cradle which was set in the fictional Caribbean island of San Lorenzo and whose ruling dictator may have been based on Haiti's "Papa Doc" Duvalier and Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo. Here’s a link to the New York Times’ original review of Cat’s Cradle which deemed the book as a “work of a far more engaging and meaningful order than the melodramatic tripe which most critics seem to consider ‘serious.’”
Links- BBC News, Wikipedia, Vonnegut Web
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