"Our time travelling promenade will take us from Earth (observed during that turbulent period between the second-world war and the third great banking collapse), via Mars, to the caves of Mercury then on to our final destination the graceful plains of Titan.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote his classic space-comedy in 1959, foretelling the space race, the creation of synthetic life and lovingly poking fun at our continual search for 'the meaning of life, the universe and everything' (as his great admirer and fellow space hitch hiker Douglas Adams put it)."

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