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New Vonnegut

It can depend. I found that the posthumous Robert Heinlein stuff was all pretty ordinary (except the expanded version of Stranger), and there was also a Douglas Adams book which was simply fragments of "stuff".

But one by John Wyndham - Web - published quite a few years after his death was a really good read, although probably little more than a first draft.

Norm
 
fromdownunder said:
It can depend. I found that the posthumous Robert Heinlein stuff was all pretty ordinary (except the expanded version of Stranger), and there was also a Douglas Adams book which was simply fragments of "stuff".

But one by John Wyndham - Web - published quite a few years after his death was a really good read, although probably little more than a first draft.

Norm
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I enjoyed reading a lot of that Tolkien stuff published after JRRT's death as well.
 
Fitter said:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/04/10/vonnegut-collection.html

Personally I'm always a little wary of posthumous releases. I suspect if the author was happy with the work he/she would have released it while still alive. Regardless, I'm sure I'll buy this the week it comes out.
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Vonnegut wrote for some pretty straight-laced magazines in the fidgety fifties: The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal among them. It could be these stories were rejected as too controversial at the time and thence never published (let's hope); or, it could be they were just, as Vonnegut himself once described an early draft of his novel Breakfast of Champions, "piece of ****." :biggrin: We'll see (I'll at least thumb through it at the bookstore; some of the stories from Monkey House were genius, like watching a modern artist entertain with conventional forms).
 
I liked Mark Vonnegut better (son, I believe). The Eden Express. He's a schizophrenic.
 
If I recall correctly, Vonnegut mentioned in one of his books (I’m guessing Palm Sunday or maybe Wampeters) that he had some short stories and other writings that were never published and that his biographer was unaware of and that he hoped that no one would find them or that they would ever again see the light of day. I’m guessing these are those.

I’ll still buy it. :boggled:
 
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