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November 4th 2017: "The Drone King" by Kurt Vonnegut


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Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EDST) on November 4th, 2017 [00:30 A.M. (GMT), November 5th], for a discussion of "The Drone King" by Kurt Vonnegut. 

The story is an early work of Vonnegut, apparently written before he began writing novels, and until appearing in a recent on edition of The Atlantic unpubished.  The editors of The Atlantic describe its discovery as as follows:  "While reading through Kurt Vonnegut’s papers in the Lilly Library, at Indiana University, as they worked on the first comprehensive edition of his short fiction, Vonnegut’s friend Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz, a scholar of Vonnegut’s work, came across five previously unpublished stories. Klinkowitz dates “The Drone King,” one of those five, to the early 1950s, when Vonnegut hadn’t yet written a novel and was only beginning to publish short fiction.

The story is an entertaining one and shows Vonnegut's typical understated humor.  Although originally in the early 1950's it would not seem out of date were it written today.  I am sure you will enjoy it.

The story is available from The Atlantic archives at:  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/kurt-vonnegut-the-drone-king/537870/

As usual our meeting will be in the #readers_corner chat room:  

Webchat:  http://koach.com/cha...=readers_corner  

mIRC Users:  /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner

I hope to see you all at our discussion on the 4th.  Don't forget to bring a friend.

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