Work

EPICAC

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · 1950short story

Genre
- science fiction
- satire
Theme
- artificial intelligence
- loneliness
Place
- our world
Time
- mid 20th century
Tone
- funny
Audience
- adult

Also present

Genreromance
Tonebittersweet

"EPICAC" is a short story in the book Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the first story to feature the fictional EPICAC computer later used in Vonnegut's novel Player Piano in 1952. It was published on November 25, 1950, for Collier's and reprinted in the February 1983 PC Magazine.

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Placement

contained in Themes in Science Fictionanthology
contained in Welcome to the Monkey Housecollection
contained in Welcome to the Monkey House / Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collageomnibus