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| title = Slaughterhouse-Five
| original title = ''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''
| image = Slaughterhouse-Five (first edition) - Kurt Vonnegut.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| author = Kurt Vonnegut
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| elevator pitch = "[T]he life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during [[World War II]], to the post-war years, with Billy occasionally traveling through time." ''(Wikipedia)''
| genre = [[Satire]]
| publication date = March 31, 1969
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{{quote|It begins like this: ''"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come [[Unstuck in Time]]."'' It ends like this: ''"Poo-tee-weet?"''}}
{{quote|Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.}}
'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s 1969 masterpiece about Billy Pilgrim, a soldier who witnessed the bombing of Dresden and subsequently gets kidnapped by Tralfamadorian aliens, who can see in all four dimensions and thus see all events in their lives in no particular order. Billy becomes [[Unstuck in Time]], marries a nice girl, experiences death for a while, befriends Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut's recurring [[Author Avatar]] in [[The Verse]]), and lives his life like most other humans—just less chronologically. Tralfamadorians don't believe you can change anything, but that doesn't mean you can't choose to focus on a particular time, and to enjoy life the way it happens. Billy learns to accept life as well as death—if something dies, then [[Arc Words|so it goes.]]
Why aliens, and why time travel? Because Vonnegut wanted to write about his experiences in [[World War II]], but he didn't want to write a story about [[Big Damn Heroes]]. Instead, his character is simply a meek observer: Billy gets to see the war and the world from a distance, objectively, as if through the eyes of aliens.
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