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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut, is a science fiction analysis of the human condition using time travel as a plot device for the protagonist's coping with the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II and the meaning of his life. Everyman Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time, travelling to and fro in his life, randomly (re)experiencing different times of his life, most notably his World War Two soldiering and his... full article at wikipedia
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