Tralfamadore
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| Tralfamadore | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Sirens of Titan (1959) |
| Created by | Kurt Vonnegut |
| In-universe information | |
| Type | Planet |
Tralfamadore is the name of several fictional planets in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.
- In the 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, Tralfamadore is a planet in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the home of a civilization of machines, which dispatches the character Salo as a messenger "across the galaxies".[1][2][3]
- In the 1969 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Tralfamadore is the home to organic beings who can see into all times, and are thus privy to knowledge of future events, including the destruction of the universe at the hands of a Tralfamadorian test pilot. They kidnap Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of the novel, and place him in a zoo on Tralfamadore.[2][4]
 | This article is missing information about various appearances. (October 2024) |
References
[edit]- ^ Leeds, Marc. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia. pp. 615–616. ISBN 9780804179928.
- ^ a b Stableford, Brian (1999). "Tralfamadore". The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places. Wonderland Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-684-84958-4.
- ^ Clute, John (2023-09-25). "Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ Allen, William Rodney (2009). "Slaughterhouse-Five". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Infobase Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-60413-585-5.
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