The Sirens of Titan
First published 1959 · English · 322 pages
- Novels
- Adventure
- Science fiction
- Dystopia
Malachi Constant, the richest and luckiest man in America, is drawn into a journey across the solar system, with stops on Mars, Mercury and Saturn's moon Titan. He is guided, or pushed, by Winston Niles Rumfoord, who has become scattered through space and time and can see what is coming. This early science fiction novel is part adventure and part philosophical comedy. It asks whether human life has any purpose, and whether the powerful forces that seem to shape our fates care about us at all.
Quotes
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules—and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.
He held up his watch to sunlight, letting it drink in the wherewithal that was to solar watches what money was to Earth men.
He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.