Books by Kurt Vonnegut in PDF or EPUB

Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and short-story writer whose work blends satire, science fiction, and dark humor. Across novels like Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, he developed a plainspoken voice that turns technological, political, and existential dilemmas into sharp, compassionate fables.

For readers seeking freely accessible texts, a small group of early magazine stories are now in the public domain in the United States because their copyrights were not renewed. Chief among them are 2 B R 0 2 B (1962) and The Big Trip Up Yonder (1954, later revised as “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”), both available in AliceAndBooks.

2 B R 0 2 B imagines population control taken to absurd extremes, while The Big Trip Up Yonder satirizes a world transformed by anti-aging drugs—stories that showcase Vonnegut’s knack for bleak comedy, humane skepticism, and big ideas in small forms.