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The brothers Vonnegut, science and fiction in the house of magic /, Ginger Strand

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The brothers Vonnegut, science and fiction in the house of magic /, Ginger Strand

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eng

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biography

Main title

The brothers Vonnegut

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907170630

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Ginger Strand

Sub title

science and fiction in the house of magic /

Summary

Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the cold war era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut. In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab or House of Magic. Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved and decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions

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