Slaughterhouse-Five Expanded Universe
For this post, I figured it might be fun to talk about Slaughterhouse-Five in relation to other Kurt Vonnegut novels. It turns out that a good number of characters in Slaughterhouse-Five are reused in other Vonnegut books either as minor characters or full-blown protagonists. Having read some of these books, I'd like to compare some characters and how they're depicted in their respective novels compared to Slaughterhouse-Five in an attempt to explore the world of Vonnegut. To be entirely clear, I'm not trying to make an overarching argument or anything here. I just thought it might be fun to talk about the Vonnegut expanded universe. Kilgore Trout is far and away the most prolific character. Apparently based on Vonnegut's earlier friend Theodore Sturgeon (you can tell based on the last names), Kilgore Trout appears in a majority of Vonnegut's novels in some way, shape, or form. He's a catalyst for many characters, such as we see in Slaughterhouse-Five ...