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
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
Credits Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Geetu Melwani and the Online
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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
Last Update Jan 2, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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