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Kilgore Trout

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Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. [1]

71 relations: A Man Without a Country, Alan Rudolph, Albert Finney, Alter ego, Aluminium, Americans, Basement apartment, Billy Pilgrim, Breakfast of Champions, Breakfast of Champions (film), Character (arts), Cohoes, New York, Conscientious objector, Doctorate, Drano, Eliot Rosewater, Fallen Angels (science fiction novel), Galápagos (novel), George W. Bush, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Hocus Pocus (novel), Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut), In These Times, Jailbird, Jerry Pournelle, Knox Burger, Korean War, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry Niven, Leo Tolstoy, Leslie Fish, Magic realism, Michael Flynn (writer), Midwestern United States, Nobel Prize, Novel, Palm Sunday (book), Philip José Farmer, Playboy, Player Piano (novel), Pseudonym, Psychic, Richard E. Geis, Saab Automobile, Salman Rushdie, Schenectady, New York, Science fiction, Short story, Slaughterhouse-Five, ..., Storm window, Sturgeon, Suicide, Supreme Court of the United States, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, The New York Times, The Sirens of Titan, Theodore Sturgeon, Timequake, Tralfamadore, Treason, Trout, Troy, New York, Truro, Massachusetts, Tupelo, United States presidential election, 2004, Venus on the Half-Shell, Veterinary medicine, Zine, 2 B R 0 2 B. Expand index (21 more) »

A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (subtitle: A Memoir Of Life In George W Bush's America) is an essay collection published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut.

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Alan Rudolph

Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Albert Finney

Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor.

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Alter ego

An alter ego (Latin, "the other I") is a second self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Basement apartment

A basement apartment is an apartment located below street level, underneath another structure—usually an apartment building, but possibly a house or a business.

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Billy Pilgrim

Billy Pilgrim is a fictional character and protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, who has appeared in adaptations of the novel for film and the stage.

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Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, published in 1973, is the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.

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Breakfast of Champions (film)

Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American black comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph, from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s 1973 novel of the same name.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Cohoes, New York

Cohoes, New York is an incorporated city located at the northeast corner of Albany County in the U.S. state of New York.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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Doctorate

A doctorate (from Latin docere, "to teach") or doctor's degree (from Latin doctor, "teacher") or doctoral degree (from the ancient formalism licentia docendi) is an academic degree awarded by universities that is, in most countries, a research degree that qualifies the holder to teach at the university level in the degree's field, or to work in a specific profession.

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Drano

Drano (stylized as Drāno) is a drain cleaner product manufactured by S. C. Johnson & Son.

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Eliot Rosewater

Eliot Rosewater is a recurring character in the novels of American author Kurt Vonnegut.

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Fallen Angels (science fiction novel)

Fallen Angels (1991) is a science fiction novel by American science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn published by Jim Baen.

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Galápagos (novel)

Galápagos is the eleventh novel written by American author Kurt Vonnegut.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr.

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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

God Bless You, Mr.

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Hocus Pocus (novel)

Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son? is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut)

Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.

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In These Times

In These Times is an American politically progressive/democratic socialist monthly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago, Illinois.

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Jailbird

Jailbird is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in 1979.

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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.

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Knox Burger

Knox Breckenridge Burger (November 1, 1922 – January 4, 2010) was an editor, writer, and literary agent who lived in New York City.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.

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Leslie Fish

Leslie Fish is a filk musician, author, and anarchist political activist.

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Magic realism

Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.

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Michael Flynn (writer)

Michael Francis Flynn (born 1947) is an American statistician and science fiction author.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Palm Sunday (book)

Palm Sunday is a 1981 collection of short stories, speeches, essays, letters, and other previously unpublished works by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

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Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

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Player Piano (novel)

Player Piano is the first novel of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1952.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Psychic

A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws.

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Richard E. Geis

Richard E. Geis (July 19, 1927 – February 4, 2013) was an American science fiction fan and writer, and erotica writer, from Portland, Oregon, who won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1982 and 1983; and whose science fiction fanzine Science Fiction Review won the 1969, 1970, 1977 and 1979 Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine.

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Saab Automobile

Saab Automobile AB was a manufacturer of automobiles that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, SAAB AB, began a project to design a small automobile.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years.

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Storm window

Storm windows are windows that are mounted outside or inside of the main glass windows of a house.

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Sturgeon

Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first published in 1959.

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Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American writer, primarily of fantasy, science fiction and horror.

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Timequake

Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published in 1997.

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Tralfamadore

The Tralfamadorians are a fictional alien race mentioned in several novels by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.

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Trout

Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.

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Troy, New York

Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County.

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Truro, Massachusetts

Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro.

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Tupelo

Tupelo, genus Nyssa, is a small genus of deciduous trees with alternate, simple leaves.

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United States presidential election, 2004

The United States presidential election of 2004, the 55th quadrennial presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

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Venus on the Half-Shell

Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore Trout", a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals.

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Zine

A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via photocopier.

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2 B R 0 2 B

"2 B R 0 2 B" is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine ''Worlds of If Science Fiction'', January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_Trout

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