Random House subsidiary Delacorte Press has made available the first in a series of un-published short stories by legendary American science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut, who passed away in April 2007.
The blurb about the short story, which is only available so far as an electronic book, states:
“Hello, Red is a sharply observed homecoming tale in which embittered merchant sailor Red Mayo returns to his small town after nine years at sea. There he confronts the man who ended up marrying the only woman Red ever loved–and stakes a claim on a certain something he left behind.’
Hello, Red, and thirteen other short stories will be published in late October in a posthumour collection of un-published Vonnegut stories, according to Random House’s Suvudu blog, which notes that another of the short stories, The Petrified Ants, will be made available on September 29 in e-book format. The site says:
“You can read these stories in printed form. You’ll just have to wait until October 20th when a brand new collection of never-before-released Vonnegut stories, Look at the Birdie, comes out in hardcover. But in an age where so much reading is done on computers and portable devices, usually for shorter periods of time or in bite-sized chunks, we thought it would be interesting to try something new.”
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