The Sirens of Titan

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. The Sirens of Titan. New York: Dell, 1959. Boston: Houghton, 1961. New York: Dell, 1970 (new Dell edn.). For further bibliographic information see Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry, as of April 2023, here.[1]

See esp. chs. 4-6, with the Army of Mars. Except for its real leaders, this army is totally "mechanized" (our word): turned into obedient, radio-controlled human robots. KV literalizes the common metaphor of an army (the prototypical bureaucracy) as a human machine. (See under Background, L. Mumford, "Utopia, The City and The Machine.")

RDE, initial; finishing 27Ap23