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Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut (1952)

“A prescient satire about machines replacing human labor, written by a man who watched it happen at General Electric.”

EraDystopian / Early Postmodern

Pages341

Difficulty★★★☆☆ Challenging

AP Appearances2

automation class work-as-meaning technocracy rebellion dehumanization progressHigh SchoolAP EnglishCollege

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automation

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