The sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Jr., Kurt Vonnegut]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, General, Fiction, Space Opera, Literary, Rhode Island
ISBN: 9780385333498
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2010-01-21T15:39:11+00:00

Boaz arrived at the company mother ship from the town of Phoebe, where he had gone to look for Unk. "God damn — " he said to Rumfoord, "everybody go and leave without us?" He was on a bicycle.

He saw Unk. "God damn, buddy," he said to Unk, "boy — you ever put your buddy through hell. I mean! How you get here?"

"Military police," said Unk.

"The way everybody gets everywhere," said Rumford lightly.

"We got to catch up, buddy," said Boaz. "Them boys ain't going to attack, if they don't have a mother ship along. What they going to fight for?"

"For the privilege of being the first army that ever died in a good cause," said Rumford.

"How's that?" said. Boaz.

"Never mind," said Rumford. "You boys just get on board, close the airlock, push the on button. You'll catch up before you know it. Everything's all fully automatic."

Unk and Boaz got on board.

Rumfoord held open the outer door of the airlock. "Boaz — " he said, "that red button on the center shaft there — that's the on button."

"I know," said Boaz.

"Unk — " said Rumfoord.

"Yes?" said Unk emptily.

"That story I told you — the love story? I left out one thing."

"That so?" said Unk.

"The woman in the love story — the woman who had that man's baby?" said Rumfoord. "The woman who was the only poet on Mars?"

"What about her?" said Unk. He didn't care much about her. He hadn't caught on that the woman in Rumfoord's story was Bee, was his own mate.

"She'd been married for several years before she got to Mars," said Rumford. "But when the hot-shot lieutenant-colonel got to her there in the space ship bound for Mars, she was still a virgin."

Winston Niles Rumfoord winked at Unk before shutting the outside door of the airlock. "Pretty good joke on her husband, eh, Unk?" he said.

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