Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the author’s death, “Armageddon in Retrospect” will probably be read by most Vonnegut fans with misty eyes and fond glances towards his other superior works. This is not his best showing, even for a dead madman who wrote the works in question with a growing sense of self-righteousness. Even his son Mark asks in the foreword, “How could he get away with some of this stuff?”
Several of the stories contained within “Armageddon” are clearly a throwback to his “Slaughterhouse-Five” days, revealing some details of the Dresden post-apocalypse that Billy Pilgrim could not have comprehended. Other non-Dresden stories fall somewhere between “Timequake” and nonsense.
I am not disappointed in the dead man, only regretful that I could not have understood more of his work while he was alive.
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