Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The ironic tale of human devolution to furry seal-like creatures plays out on the very islands that were instrumental in explaining evolution. Vonnegut foresaw viral zoonoses like the present-day HIV, SARS-CoV2, Monkey Pox, Zika etc wiping out humanity. Dismissive of humans and their puny lives despite possessing ‘a big brain’, his curt, abrupt, sardonic style is really engaging.

…people enjoy in their heads events which hadn’t happened yet and which might never occur. My mother was good at that. Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on. She used to make me wonder why God had ever gone to all the trouble of creating reality.

His message, still unheard by humankind, is to stop polluting our planet, preserving nature, live harmoniously atop wars and strife... He lived in his own private utopia!

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