Swiftian Satire of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Wymer, Thomas L. "The Swiftian Satire of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." Voices for the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers. Vol. 1. Thomas D. Clareson, ed. Bowling Green, OH: BGU PopP, 1976.

In Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut satirizes Billy Pilgrim's acceptance of the Tralfamadorian view of humans as machines without free will, trapped in a determined, mechanistic universe (an argument that TLW extends in his essay "Machines and the Meaning of Human in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." in TMG).