The Sirens of Titan
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A great book. First published AD 1959, written in English
The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history, with much of the story revolving around a Martian invasion of Earth.
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Later works that draw on The Sirens of Titan.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyGreat book
Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer, AD 1979
Douglas Adams named The Sirens of Titan as an influence: a comic tour of the solar system in which human history turns out to serve an absurd alien purpose, as the Earth itself does in The Hitchhiker's Guide.
Source: Wikipedia, The Sirens of Titan
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