[PJ-Comix]

Any other Kilgore Trout fans out there? If you haven't heard of Kilgore Trout before it might be because of his relative obscurity. However many die-hard sci-fi readers consider Kilgore Trout to be the greatest science fiction writer of all time. His "Venus On The Half-Shell" is considered by far the BEST science fiction novel ever written. If you have never read this book before, check it out. You won't be disappointed.

[Spiff]

Good-bye Blue Monday.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I used to like the guy from whom I first heard of Trout, but then he kept writing the same book again and again….

[mystery-ak]

My hubby is a big fan.
Kilgore Trout aka Kurt Vonnegut.

[deadrock]

Never heard of him. Then again, I hate sci fi.

[billorites]

I've long been a big fan since I first read Trout in high school.

Quite above and beyond his success in the sci-fi genre, I think he's one of the American masters of prose comparable to Lincoln, Clemens or Hemingway.

[caprockkate]

He's good, but he's no Kurt Vonnegut ;)

[Catspaw]

I've heard of Kilgore Trout, but haven't read him since college. It's Kurt Vonnegut.

[RightWhale]

Kilgore Trout lived for one semester in the same boarding house as Carlos Casteneda in the early 60s, but on a different floor.

[JenB]

Never read him - though I'll keep my eyes open for something of his now - but I doubt he could possibly be as good as the greatest science fiction writer of all time, Robert A. Heinlein.

[Cable225]

Even on these silly threads, one can find something of interest. Following the links on the "Kilgore Trout" site can take you to right here:

A story from the Washington Post

Reprinted in its entirety. I wonder why they get to do it and we don't.

[steve in DC]

I read Venus on the Halfshell in college. It is the only one of his books I have ever found.

[Ben Chad]

Why are we created only to suffer and die?

[vikingchick]

Schlachthof-Funf

[drjimmy]

I haven't read Kilgore Trout's books, but he gave a great college commencement speech a couple of years ago.

[toenail]

Trout is one of the most underrated sci-fi authors of all time, and one of my favorites.

[john in orinda]

I was under the impression that Kilgore Trout was Kurt Vonnegut's dog.

If you look carefully at the picture on the back of "Venus on the Half Shell", you might imagine that it's a dog, not a person.
Regards,

[Britton J Wingfield]

Venus on the Half Shell was written by Philip Jose Farmer, under the name Kilgore Trout. Trout is, of course, a fictional character created by Kurt Vonnegut.

[harpseal]

A Venus on the Half Shell bump. "Anyone without a prehensile tail is clearly deformed."

Stay well - Stay safe- Stay armed - Yorktown

[Harrison Bergeron]

"Any other Kilgore Trout fans out there? If you haven't heard of Kilgore Trout before it might be because of his relative obscurity."

What's with the phoney bio? I thought everybody knew that Trout was a nomme de plume of Kurt Vonnegut.

[lds23]

Have you ever seen the made-for-TV movie "Between Time and Timbuktu"? It was a compilation of Vonnegut's work, and was hysterical. Among others, it starred Bob & Ray as the TV commentators as the Billy Pilgrim character went through time and space into the different scenes. It was way better that the Slaughterhouse 5 movie.

My favorite scene is where he's on the planet where Political Correctness has run amuck, and the Police wear heavy boots and backpacks, goggles, earplugs, etc. when chasing a suspect, so as not to have any unfair advantages.