[koosie]

I am greatly saddened this morning to hear of the death of the novellist Kurt Vonnegut jr. Although best known as a biting satirist, his books were always warm-hearted and funny and always made you look at whatever subject he was adressing in a strange and illuminating way.
This also means no more punchline-driven science fiction shorts by his alter-ego Kilgore Trout. This alone would be a great loss to the world, I can only hope the many hundreds of Trout shorts are collected together at last in one volume as it would be a wishing-well of fresh ideas for the writers and philosophers of the future.