Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth
century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was
short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it
all together. Organized thematically--War, Women, Science, Romance, Work Ethic
versus Fame and Fortune, Behavior, The Band Director (those stories featuring
Lincoln High's band director and nice guy George Hemholtz), and
Futuristic--these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and
include those Vonnegut published in magazines and collected in Welcome to the
Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books; here for the first time five
previously unpublished