In the patois of the north side of the river, it was the know-how that won the war. It was the miracle that won the war - production with almost no manpower. Not many people on either side have reasons other than curiosity for crossing.ĭuring the war, in hundreds of Iliums over America, managers and engineers learned to get along without their men and women, who went to fight. If the bridge across the Iroquois were dynamited, few daily routines would be disturbed. In the northwest are the managers and engineers and civil servants and a few professional people in the northeast are the machines and in the south, across the Iroquois River, is the area known locally as Homestead, where almost all of the people live. ILIUM, New York, is divided into three parts. Upon the skill and imagination and courage of our managersĪnd engineers, and I hope that God will help them to help usīut this book is about another point in history, when there History, 1952 A.D., our lives and freedom depend largely It is mostly about managers and engineers. The characters are modeled after personsĪs yet unborn, or, perhaps, at this writing, infants. This book is not a book about what is, but a book about Vonnegut's first novel about a permanantly unemployed working class, dispossessed by mangerial engineers and automation.
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