Title: Cat's Cradle

Title: Cat's Cradle Title Record # 2269
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Date: 1963-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Translated Serializations

Year	Title
1963	Cat's Cradle [as by Kurt Vonnegut]

Year	Language	Title
1972^ⓘTranslated by Jacques B. Hess; first published by Éditions du Seuil in 1972.	French	Le berceau du chat
1978^ⓘTranslated by Vukica Đilas	Serbian	Kolevka za macu [as by Kurt Vonegat]
1985^ⓘTranslated by Michael Schulte	German	Katzenwiege [as by Kurt Vonnegut]
2017^ⓘTranslated by Livia Koeppl	Portuguese	Cama de gato [as by Kurt Vonnegut]

Year	Language	Title
2000	Italian	Ghiaccio-nove (Complete Novel) [as by Kurt Vonnegut]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
5	1964 Hugo	Best Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Cat's Cradle	1963-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Holt, Rinehart and Winston		$4.50	231	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1963-04-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Holt, Rinehart and Winston / SFBC		$1.20	231	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1963-07-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Gollancz		18/-	231	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1964-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Delta	1149	$1.65	231	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	M. Tinkelman
Cat's Cradle	1965-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Readers Union / Contemporary Fiction Book Club		6/-	231	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dodie Masterman
Cat's Cradle	1965-07-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Penguin Books	2308	3/6	178+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Joan Miro
Cat's Cradle	1965-09-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.60	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Murray Tinkelman
Cat's Cradle	1970-01-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-03-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-04-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-05-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-07-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-09-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-10-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1970-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1971-01-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Gollancz	0-575-00637-4		231	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1971-01-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1971-03-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1971-05-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1971-08-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1971-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1972-02-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1972-10-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$0.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1973-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Penguin Books	0-14-002308-9	£0.30	179	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
Cat's Cradle	1973-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$1.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1974-03-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$1.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1974-05-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$1.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Le berceau du chat	1974-10-10	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #556)			254	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tibor Csernus
Cat's Cradle	1975-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Penguin Books	0-14-002308-9	£0.50	179	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
Cat's Cradle	1976-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	1149	$1.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Kolevka za macu	1978-00-00	Kurt Vonegat	Jugoslavija (Kentaur)			150	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Vladimir Pajević^?Vladimir Pajevich Vladimir Pajevic
Cat's Cradle	1979-07-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$1.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1980-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Penguin Books			224	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Justin Todd
Slaughterhouse-Five / The Sirens of Titan / Player Piano / Cat's Cradle / Breakfast of Champions / Mother Night	1980-06-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Octopus / Heinemann	0-905712-47-1		862	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Cat's Cradle	1983-07-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$3.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1983-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$3.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1983-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$3.25	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Katzenwiege	1985-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Piper (Germany)	3-492-02531-5	DM 26.00	254	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1986-04-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Delta	0-385-28126-9	$9.95	231	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1986-05-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Penguin Books	0-14-002308-9	£2.95	178	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Peter Elson
Cat's Cradle	1988-11-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$4.95	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Katzenwiege	1989-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Rowohlt Taschenbuch (rororo #12449)	3-499-12449-1	DM 8.80	254	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1990-09-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Henry Holt	0-8050-1319-9	$25.00	231	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Cat's Cradle	1992-07-00	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Dell	0-440-11149-8	$5.99	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gene Greif
Cat's Cradle	1998-10-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Delta	0-385-33348-X	$11.95	xiii+ 287	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Gene Greif
Cat's Cradle	1998-10-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Delta	0-385-33348-X		287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Gene Greif
Cat's Cradle	1999-00-00	Kurt Vonnegut	Penguin Books			224	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mike Venebles
Urania #1383	2000-03-12	ed. Giuseppe Lippi	Arnoldo Mondadori Editore	1383	5,900 Lit	236	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	mag	Massimo Rosestolato
Cat's Cradle	2007-11-01	Kurt Vonnegut	Caedmon	0-06-089873-9	$29.95		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel
Cat's Cradle	2008-05-01	Kurt Vonnegut	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-118934-5	£8.99	xiii+ 205	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Cat's Cradle	2009-06-29	Kurt Vonnegut	Penguin Books Australia (Popular Penguins)	978-0-14-104544-3	A$9.95	228	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Cat's Cradle	2009-11-04	Kurt Vonnegut	The Dial Press	978-0-307-56727-7	$8.99		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Cat's Cradle	2010-05-20	Kurt Vonnegut	Gollancz (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-08195-6	£8.99	xi+ 203	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dominic Harman
Cat's Cradle	2010-07-01	Kurt Vonnegut	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-0276-3	$8.99		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Cat's Cradle	2011-04-07	Kurt Vonnegut	Penguin Books	978-0-241-95160-6	£7.99	224	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories, 1963-1973	2011-06-02	Kurt Vonnegut	The Library of America (The Library of America #216)	978-1-59853-098-8	$35.00	854	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels	2016-09-20	Kurt Vonnegut	The Library of America (The Library of America)	978-1-59853-509-9	$145.00	3317	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Cama de gato	2017-11-03	Kurt Vonnegut	Editora Aleph	978-85-7657-387-6	R$46.90	280	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Adalis Martinez
Cat's Cradle	date unknown	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Delta / QPBC	440-01149-195-235		231	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Murray Tinkelman
Cat's Cradle	date unknown	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Penguin Books	0-14-028560-1	£5.99	179	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Mike Venebles
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973	date unknown	Kurt Vonnegut	The Library of America (The Library of America #216)	978-1-59853-098-8	$35.00	852	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Bryan Wharton
Cat's Cradle	date unknown	Kurt Vonnegut	Delta	0-385-33348-X	$14.00	287	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Gene Greif

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Reviews

Review by Theodore Sturgeon (1963) in Galaxy Magazine, August 1963
Review by Avram Davidson (1963) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1963
Review by Leslie Flood (1963) in New Worlds Science Fiction, October
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1963) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, November 1963
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1965) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, July 1965
Review by James Colvin (1965) in New Worlds SF, November 1965
Review [French] by Jean-Patrick Ebstein (1972) in Fiction, #228
Review by Bill Warren (1978) in Delap's F & SF Review, March-April 1978
Review [Croatian] by
Želimir Koščević^?Zelimir Koscevic
(1979) in Sirius, #37
Review by Tom Staicar (1980) in Amazing Stories, November 1980
Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1985)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1986)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1987)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1997)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (2014)
Review [German] by Wolfgang Pollanz (1988) in Das Science Fiction Jahr Ausgabe 1988
Review by David Michael Wharton (2003) in Strange Horizons, 24 March 2003
Review by Manny Rayner (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2
Review by Peter Young (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2