Release Message:  People in 2001 are transported back to 1991 to relive their lives. Written by Kurt Vonnegut.

Description:  People in 2001 are transported back to 1991 to relive their lives. Vonnegut uses the premise of a timequake (or repetition of actions) in which there is no free will. The idea of determinism is explored„as it is in many of his previous works„to assert that people really have no free will. Kilgore Trout serves again as the main character, who the author declares as having died in 2001, at Xanadu retreat in Rhode Island. Vonnegut explains in the beginning of the book that he was not satisfied with the original version of Timequake he wrote (or Timequake One). Taking parts of Timequake One and combining it with personal thoughts and anecdotes produced the finished product, so-called Timequake Two. Many of the anecdotes deal with Vonnegut's family, the death of loved ones, and people's last words. The plot, while centered on Trout, is also a sort of ramble in which Vonnegut goes off on complete tangents to the plot and comes back dozens of pages later: the Timequake has thrust citizens of the year 2001 back in time to 1991 to repeat every action they undertook during that time.