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The brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic / Ginger Strand

by Ginger Gail Strand

This history explores the intersection of scientific weather-control experiments at General Electric and the development of a prominent novelist's career. It examines the ethical tensions and military applications of cloud-seeding research during the Cold War era.

Accession 11210 ISBN 9780374117016 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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