Spare a moment in your day, readers and Ficleteers, to reflect on the passing of Kurt Vonnegut, who died yesterday at 84 years of age, which is far too young as these things go.
I started reading Vonnegut in high school, as I think a lot of geeks and would-be science fiction writers do; I read Slaughterhouse Five, and remember noting how it was not like a lot of other science fiction I was reading at the time; namely, that it had a sense of humor that was not based on bad puns. Further reflection on the work revealed it had other qualities as well, of course, but that wasn’t a bad place to start.
Others will better note his contributions to literature, which are pretty damn significant; I just want to tell him thanks for the good reads, which were inspiring for a young not-quite writer.
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