num_pages: 296
description: Vonnegut's first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. A human revolt against the machines which control life was arranged by the machines themselves to prove the futility of such resistance.
language: English
title: Player Piano
titlecomplete: Player Piano
characters: Dr. Katherine Finch, Dr. Bud Calhoun, Paul Proteus, Anita Proteus
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Humor, Classics, Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, American
ratings_count: 54755
places: Ilium
awards: awardedAt: -536428800000
name: International Fantasy Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Macmillan