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Norwalk, CT. 2004. Signed Limited Edition. No dustjacket as issued. Genuine full leather, with Certificate of Authenticity and Collector's Notes.

Player Piano was Kurt Vonnegut's first novel. It was originally published in 1952. Vonnegut had previously worked as a PR writer for General Electric's renowned Research Laboratory. There he saw the technology of the future, including computer controlled machines that would do work traditionally done by people. Player Piano draws extensively from his experiences at the Laboratory. Set in an America where the only people that have any purpose are the elite technocrats who control the computers which control everything else. It is the story of engineer Paul Proteus, who joins a rebellion of those made useless by technology. Amazing prescience for 1952!

AN (As New). Brand new, mint, and flawless. Still sealed in the original shrink-wrap from Easton Press. 

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