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    2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)
    2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)
    2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)
    Audiobook47 minutes

    2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)

    Written by Kurt Vonnegut

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of what over population was going to do to society after aging was conquered and a simple daily dose of "anti-gerosone" would keep you forever the same age. Would Gramps EVER take 'That Big Trip Up Yonder', or would his hordes of descendants be stuck with him forever in a tiny apartment!? 2 B R 0 2 B, published in Worlds of If, January 1962 takes this basic situation many years into the future and a solution has been found. The population of the US has dropped from 80 billion to 40 million. Not what everyone would call a pretty solution, or the best solution, but nevertheless a solution to the population problem. I believe this is the type of story it is best to listen to, not describe, so enjoy. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)
    Author

    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""

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