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Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Cradle
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#28 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...
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Mark Yashar
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In this dark, satirical, apocalyptic sci-fi novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1963), which is ultimately a cautionary tale about the insanity of a world filled with nukes and other weapons of mass destruction, physicist Felix Hoenikker discovers a new form of solid water called "ice-nine". As real-life physicist Leonard Susskind describes it: "The crystalline structure of ice-nine is somewhat different from usual ice ... and as a result the new crystal lattice is so stable that it doesn't melt until the t ...more
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Jan 18, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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May 12, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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