The characters begins with a ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder, that narrates the humorous, sarcastic and sometimes critical decline of the human race, as seen through the eyes and minds of the survivors of a doomed cruise to the Galapagos Islands.
Vonnegut's cast of unlikely Adams and Eves setting out on an evolutionary journey includes Mary Hepburn, an American biology teacher and recent widow; Zenji Hiroguchi, a Japanese computer genius (who doesn't make it to the ship, although his language-translating and quotation-spouting computer does); his wife, Hisako, carrying radiated genes from the atomic bombs; James Wait, who has made a fortune marrying elderly women; and Captain Aolph von Kleist, the Captain of the Bahia de Darwin; also included were six orphaned girls of the Kanka-bono tribe, who became the founding mothers of the fisher folk after a bacteria determined all other women infertile... displayed 300 characters
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The characters begins with a ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder, that narrates the humorous, sarcastic and sometimes critical decline of the human race, as seen through the eyes and minds of the survivors of a doomed cruise to the Galapagos Islands.
Vonnegut's cast of unlikely Adams and Eves setting out on an evolutionary journey includes Mary Hepburn, an American biology teacher and recent widow; Zenji Hiroguchi, a Japanese computer genius (who doesn't make it to the ship, although his language-translating and quotation-spouting computer does); his wife, Hisako, carrying radiated genes from the atomic bombs; James Wait, who has made a fortune marrying elderly women; and Captain Aolph von Kleist, the Captain of the Bahia de Darwin; also included were six orphaned girls of the Kanka-bono tribe, who became the founding mothers of the fisher folk after a bacteria determined all other women infertile... displayed 300 characters
