A review by torts
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, Peter J. Reed

5.0

Glorious. A lot of these stories seem to suggest the type of writer Vonnegut would become with his later novels. (Similar themes and locations and character names and whatnot.) But what I really liked about these stories was how different they were from what I usually expected from Vonnegut--no aliens, no time travel, nothing particularly science-fictiony. Not only that, but almost every single story has a happy or humorous ending. Apparently he hadn't started with the heavyhanded depressing humanist messages yet. Except in 2BR02B...which was futuristic and depressing in a typically Vonnegutty fashion...but still a little more grounded in human drama than his later stuff, I think.