Player Piano

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Kurt Vonnegut debuts with a sharp, satirical vision of a future where automation has rendered human labor obsolete. In the city of Ilium, society is divided between the elite managers who maintain the machines and the displaced masses who have lost their sense of purpose. Dr. Paul Proteus starts as a successful factory manager within this rigid hierarchy, but he soon begins to question the spirit…

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