The Sirens of Titan was written by Kurt Vonnegut, and fiirst published in 1959. My copy was published in 2009 by Dial Press Club.
Space travel, Martians, religious input, and three people most sffected by these things. Mr. Rumford is stuck in the Chrono-synclastic infundibula, with his dog Kazak. This means he appears every 14 days with an update for his wife Beatrice and eventually a man named Malachi Constant. When Rumford appears he comes to the same space in his house. Recently he has told Beatrice that she will marry Malachi and have a son named Chrono, and live on Mars. This make Beatrice mad, and both she and Malachi try to devise ways to avoid each other. Malachi sells the very spaceship that Rumford says they will use. Beatrice refuses to be forced to marry, since she is already married.
Rumford pulls strings all over the place to get this to happen. But is it only him pulling the strings. There is a martian invasion of Earth, but these are not the type of Martians you read about in stories. Though there are little antenna sticking out of their heads.
I have to say it is the quirkiest book I have read, in regards to space travel. It's worth the read only to figure out how it plays with the space race that was happening around the time this book was written.
Religion also plays a roll in this book, but a religion based not on God but accidents that happen to everybody and why.
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