The Sirens of Titan is a satirical science fiction novel written by Kurt Vonnegut and first published in 1959. It is his second novel and deals with themes of Free Will vs. Predestination; Religion and Meaning; Wealth, Power, and Inequity; as well as Human Intelligence and Hubris. The novel possesses many of the elements of Vonnegut's signature style, including simple syntax and sentence structure, irony, sentimentality, and didacticism about how people should live.
The novel is widely regarded as Vonnegut's first great work. In a 2012 retrospective on Vonnegut's work, William Deresiewicz, a former Yale professor and author, wrote that novel showed that "Kurt Vonnegut [had] become Kurt...
