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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Strand, Ginger Gail, author.     Subjects     Vonnegut, Kurt.     Vonnegut, Bernard.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Scientists -- United States -- Biography.     Weather control -- United States.     Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strand, Ginger Gail, author.       by title:      The brothers Vonnegu...         MARC Display

The brothers Vonnegut [electronic resource] : science and fiction in the house of magic / Ginger Strand. by Strand, Ginger Gail, author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Subjects Vonnegut, Kurt.   Vonnegut, Bernard.   Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Scientists -- United States -- Biography.   Weather control -- United States.   Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=26D5AA5E-C238-4534-BFD5-8E2E64638221 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=26d5aa5e-c238-4534-bfd5-8e2e64638221&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{26D5AA5E-C238-4534-BFD5-8E2E64638221}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780374711542 (electronic bk.) 0374711542 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be--as a headline in American Magazine calls it--"The New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloudseeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the use of his inventions for harm, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists"-- "Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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