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Tralfamadorians In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim is kidnapped by these inquisitive and fairly benign aliens, who put him in a zoo.
Ten of the best 2011
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He ends up being sucked into a time-warp and is put in a zoo by the alien Tralfamadorians.
And So It Went Tom Shippey 2011
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Do Billy Pilgrim's Tralfamadorians exist, or has he made them up to make his agonized life more bearable?
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books Worth Reading Twice 2008
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Surviving the attack by hiding in a meat locker, Billy emerges to a ruined world, the shock of which causes him to be “unstuck in time,” a mystic state that enables him to travel to various periods of his life and eventually leads to communication with the extraterrestrial Tralfamadorians, a race of mostly all-knowing two-foot-tall aliens Vonnegut describes as looking like upside-down toilet plungers.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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It is from the Tralfamadorians that the eternally traumatized Billy learns that time, which includes life and death, is basically subjective, part of an unbroken continuum, any segment of which can be revisited over and over again.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Senator Chuck Grassley is well known as one of Congress's most heroic users of social media, sending legendarily illegible, frequently dyspeptic tweets out into the Twittersphere, and from there to the Library of Congress, where they shall remain under seal until our Tralfamadorians arrive to study our culture.
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Thanks to the Tralfamadorians, he saw all points in time, past and future, but was powerless to change them, to the point that he knew the exact moment of his death and was powerless to stop it.
The Tail Section » Episode 4.5 “The Constant” Afterthoughts 2008
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His novels - 14 in all - were alternate universes, filled with topsy-turvy images and populated by races of his own creation, like the Tralfamadorians and the Mercurian Harmoniums.
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The Tralfamadorians don't believe in free will, and they mock humans because we do.
Archive 2008-05-01 Gordie 2008
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The Tralfamadorians don't believe in free will, and they mock humans because we do.
Slaughterhouse Five Gordie 2008
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