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Published a year after the Cuban missile crisis, Cat's Cradle is a classic of cold-war science fiction. Its hallucinatory quality made Kurt Vonnegut a hero to hippies and peaceniks, writes Benjamin Kunkel

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Good bad jokes: Kurt Vonnegut. Photograph: Edie Vonnegut/AP

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Rereading: Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

This article appeared in the Guardian on Saturday April 26 2008 on p21 of the Features & reviews section. It was last updated at 10.35 on May 25 2008.

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