I hate this:
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The story, which describes a world in which machines have taken over, led to the author being dismissed as a science fiction writer.

Kurt Vonnegut was always a science-fiction writer. But since some bigwigs thought it was worth reading anyway, he gets reclassified as "literature". I hate it that science-fiction is ghetto literature when it is, more often than not, far more compelling and literate than comparable non-genre fare.

That said, the loss of Kurt is sad news and a loss for all of us. Very, very sad that he lost his life to brain injury. I'm sure the loss of his faculties would be what would have scared him the most. At least those injuries were short-lived.
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Bitt Faulk