2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut
"2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut is a science fiction short story published in 1962. In a future where aging has been cured and lifespans are indefinite, the population is strictly controlled at forty million. For someone to be born, someone else must volunteer to die. At a Chicago hospital, a man awaits the birth of triplets but faces an impossible choice. The story explores the dark consequences of
a seemingly perfect world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Vonnegut, Kurt, 1922-2007 |
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| Title | 2 B R 0 2 B |
| Series Title | Produced from Worlds of If, January 1962. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_B_R_0_2_B |
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Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 21279 |
| Release Date | May 3, 2007 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 2, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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