Characters
This wealthy, aimless character is the novel’s protagonist.
Who is Malachi Constant?
This is the planet (sort of) where much of the novel’s final act takes place.
What is Titan?
This military force is secretly created by Rumfoord to serve as a lesson in humility for Earth.
What is the Martian Army?
This theme is central to the novel and is questioned through the deterministic events in Malachi’s life.
What is free will?
He is the author of The Sirens of Titan.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
This character appears to have control over space and time and manipulates events throughout the novel.
Who is Winston Niles Rumfoord?
Winston Rumfoord is caught in a chrono-synclastic infundibulum between Earth and this planet.
What is Mars?
This device implanted in the Martian soldiers controls their actions and memories.
What is the antenna?
The novel uses time travel and manipulation to explore this philosophical concept.
What is fatalism or determinism?
This is the decade when The Sirens of Titan was published.
What is the 1950s?
She is the wife of the protagonist and eventually becomes the mother of his child.
Who is Beatrice Rumfoord?
Unk is part of an army on this planet.
What is Mars?
This term describes the phenomenon that makes Rumfoord exist in multiple places and times simultaneously.
What is a chrono-synclastic infundibulum?
This theme is represented by the "The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
Vonnegut served in this war, which influenced his later writing.
What is World War II?
This alien species is revealed to have orchestrated much of human history to deliver a spare part.
Who are the Tralfamadorians?
This is where Malachi Constant lives at the beginning of the novel.
What is Earth (specifically, Hollywood)?
This is what Chrono's "good luck piece" turns out to be.
What is a missing spare part?
This theme is what contributed to Rumfoord's resentment and desire to persecute Constant.
What is Wealth and Power?
Vonnegut’s most famous novel, published 10 years after Sirens, is this anti-war classic.
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?
This loyal dog accompanies Unk on Titan and represents the idea of loyalty.
Who is Kazak?
This desolate moon of Saturn is where Salo waits for a spare part.
What is Titan?
The Martian army’s failed invasion of Earth is blamed on this "weapon" that never existed.
What is the "Universal Will to Become"?
This is symbolized by Kazak’s unwavering companionship to Rumfoord.
What is loyalty?
This genre defines most of Vonnegut’s work.
What is satirical science fiction?