Such books as Cat’s Cradle, Player Piano and Breakfast Of Champions offered up amusing and often worryingly accurate portraits of human nature at its lowest, where lives are ruined or existences snuffed out through naivety or plain madness. In short, Vonnegut was one of the sharpest sci-fi writers of all time. Over the intervening years, Weide would himself go on to enjoy considerable success: he was producer and director on the hit series Curb Your Enthusiasm, and received acclaim for Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012). After Vonnegut’s sad death in 2007, Weide continued to work on his film, but it remained in a curious state of limbo; Weide had long been concerned that his growing friendship with Vonnegut would skew the way his documentary came out. “It’s still a film about Vonnegut,” says Don Argott, “but it’s also a film about the evolving relationship between filmmaker and subject, as well as the 30-year struggle to complete the very film you’re watching.” The result is Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time, which is now looking for $250,000 worth of funding on Kickstarter. As an illustration of Vonnegut’s brilliance, here’s one of our favourite passages from his work. It’s taken from Breakfast Of Champions, and talks about a story written by one Kilgore Trout – the sci-fi author dreamed up by Vonnegut: Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
