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portada The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.8 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9780374536534
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic

Ginger Strand (Author) · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · Paperback

The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic - Strand, Ginger

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Synopsis "The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic"

Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt VonnegutIn the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or House of Magic. Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be the New Super Weapon. But when the army takes charge of his cloud-seeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.

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Ricardo JaramilloThursday, February 03, 2022
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Excelente, muy bien escrito y documentado. Es la historia de unos hermanos, del lugar de la ciencia en la sociedad y del proceso de tratar de vivir de la escritura.

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