From Requiem, Kurt Vonnegut (2005)
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
According to the New York Times, a great paper i never read, Kurt Vonnegut passed away Wednesday night. To those of you who do not know why you should care, Vonnegut was a writer, best known for his Vietnam war era novel Slaughterhouse-Five. However, he was also a highly respected and well known science fiction writer, one of the genre's premiere authors.
I must confess that I've never read a book of his, despite being a gigantic sci-fi fan. I must take time out however to pay respect to him.
He did alot for the genre in its early days, helping to establish it as more then just pulp fiction and something worthy of critical consideration. and while i hate nothing more then taring apart great stories to find things that can be hugely individual, critical acceptance is greatly important to the survival of literature...to even be able to call it literature! Vonnegut, Arthur C. Clark, and so many other great authors really led to popularization of science fiction, so its sad to see one of them leave us.
So a tip of my hat to you, Kurt Vonnegut. You shall be missed by millions of readers who dared dream of the other worlds you brought to life.
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
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