description: Multimedia version of Slaughterhouse-five, including full text of the novel which allows the user to move randomly through the novel's events, a video interview with author Kurt Vonnegut, and archival film footage of historical events depicted in the novel which features "Billy Pilgrim's fantasic journey-- from the fire bombing of Dresden to life as a family man, from a prisoner of war to a specimen in the zoo of an alien civilization.Producer, Byron Preiss; director, Rachel Forest; programmer, Philip M. Plisterer; documentation, Martha Kikut.
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse Five
titlecomplete: Slaughterhouse Five
characters: Montana Wildhack, Kilgore Trout, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord, Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro, Robert Pilgrim, Billy Pilgrim, Edgar Derby, Eliot Rosewater, Barbara Pilgrim, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Valencia Merble
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, War, American, Literature, Classics, Novels, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1331044
places: Ilium, Dresden, The United States of America, Germany, Tralfamadore
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 28800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 28800000
name: Chicago Publishers' Award
publisher: Warner Books Multimedia Software