"Kurt Vonnegut is a science fiction writer in that he writes of societies different from ours, of technological capacities we don't yet have, of universes whose rulers are other than those of ours. Kurt Vonnegut is also a satirist, a keen observer of the follies of mankind and of the hypocrasies of its leaders. The combination is a powerful one." -Isaac Asimov

Listen to this excerpt from "Breakfast of Champions", taken from the Harper Audio/Caedmon release of "The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection." Read by Vonnegut himself in his unmistakably ironic drone, it represents the author at his existential best.