Kurt Vonnegut Jr. has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Two by Vonnegut: The Big Trip Up Yonder and 2BR02B.
Two by Vonnegut: The Big Trip Up Yonder and 2BR02B
Summary
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). These two short works, "The Big Trip Up Yonder" and "2BR02B", are science fiction tales originally published in the magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and If: Worlds of Science Fiction in 1959 and 1962.
©2016 Kurt Vonnegut (P)2016 Kitty Hendrix
2 B R 0 2 B and the Big Trip Up Yonder
Summary
Two classic short stories from American literature's most beloved science fiction satirist, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "2 B R 0 2 B" (pronounced: to be or not to be), was first published in 1962, and introduces the listener to a future where old age has been cured, population control has been implemented to keep the United States population at exactly 40 million, and death is voluntary. "The Big Trip Up Yonder" was published in 1954, and is similarly themed (old age has been cured), but in opposite. This story follows the Ford family who has 23 members spanning several generations all living together in a small one bedroom apartment under the tyrannical head of the family, "Gramps".
Public Domain (P)2020 Jonathan Ostrander
Welcome to Your Future
Summary
Welcome to Your Future: Two Stories by Kurt Vonnegut. Presented by the Online Stage. In the not-too-distant future, 2185 AD, anti-gerisone is the new drug that stops ageing. People are now living into their hundreds until it's time to take their own big trip up yonder, and in the case of the Ford family and Gramps, the notable patriarch, families are living and fighting together in one home for much longer. Eventually there are no prisons, slums, asylums, poverty, wars, or disease. and 200 years later the population of the US is set at 40 million people. But since no one gets any older, someone must volunteer to die if a baby is born. To make an appointment, one need only call 2BR02B.... "The Big Trip Up Yonder" If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it...it is much too good for anyone else! Cast: Narrator - Anna Grace Gramps - Jeff Moon Lou - Andy Harrington Emerald - Susan Iannucci Eddie - Tyler Hyrchuk Willy - Lance Rasmussen Morty - Ted Wenskus TV Commentator - Marty Krz TV Announcer - Marty Krz Turnkey - Ted Wenskus "2BR02B" Got a problem? Just pick up the phone. It solved them all - and all the same way! Cast: Narrator - Anna Grace Orderly - Tyler Hyrchuk Painter - Lance Rasmussen Leora Duncan - Aisling Gray Dr. Hitz - Jeff Moon Edward Wehling - Andy Harrington Hostess - Susan Iannucci Audio edited by Anna Grace
Public Domain (P)2020 The Online Stage