Title: Cats' Cradle Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. First published in 1963 by I read the SF Masterworks edition by Orion Group Publishing. Source: Malmö City Library "Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon &, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh..." " Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma !" Cat's Cradle is a classic, and after h...