2 B R 0 2 B

"2 B R 0 2 B" is a science fiction short story by American author Kurt Vonnegut. It was first published in the January 1962 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction and later collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.