SUCKER'S PORTFOLIO (kindle) by Kurt Vonnegut
















Published in 2012 by Amazon Publishing.

Amazon collected 6 short stories, 1 essay and 1 unfinished sci-fi story and added yet another collection to the Vonnegut library.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) started writing during the Golden Age of sci-fi, when magazines were filling their pages with short stories. Some of these are sci-fi, some are just little human stories. 

Indianapolis native quoting fellow Hoosier author 
James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Little Orphan Annie"
I particularly enjoyed the first story, called "Between Timid and Timbuktu." It is a "Twilight Zone" type of story that I found satisfying in a gruesome sort of way. I also enjoyed the title story. It actually had a surprise twist that was pretty much out of character for a Vonnegut story. 

The seventh entry is an essay from 1992. Vonnegut was a prodigious writer of essays in the latter half of his career. I generally am more of a fan of his caustic and insightful essays than his fiction and this one did not disappoint. 

But, for me, the eighth entry was the surprise. It was an unfinished dystopian future story set in a small town after a human-robot war. It had a lot of zip to it and I was really intrigued right up to the moment it ended in mid-sentence.

I rate this e-book 4 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: SUCKER'S PORTFOLIO (kindle) by Kurt Vonnegut.

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