Title:: [[Player Piano]] Authors:: [[Kurt Vonnegut]] Tags:: #scifi #darkhumor #vonnegut #fiction Read:: [[2022-01-12]] ## Editions - Edition:: A Laurel Book, 1980 - Original Copyright:: 1952 - Pages:: 295 ## Annotations A goal I set for the year is to read all of Vonnegut’s novels in the order they were published.  Player Piano is first, published in 1952.  Here’s a book written 70 years ago about how machines and automation have solved so much work - both physical and mental - that everyone but engineers and managers feel as though their dignity and meaning have been removed from their lives. The main character, the Vonnegutianly named Paul Proteus, is a successful and wealthy engineer who realizes that his own success has resulted in making significantly more people miserable.  The same story could have been written in 2022, which is why I am reading Vonnegut this year.