BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84:

One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.

What a royal bummer.

“Destiny Calling“, a short story I wrote and sent to Kurt after finishing Timequake (Kurt Jr. Vonnegut) (got off the plane from London, took the A line straight home, threw the bag on the bed and started writing in the old Atlantic Ave apartment in Brooklyn – writing on that crummy old desk/kitchen table acquired from some guy’s basement down the avenue, a basement filled with Miles Davis memorabilia and furniture).

This is more for reference than anything, when I recommend this series to people.

The order is:

1. The Long-Legged Fly
2. Moth
3. Black Hornet
4. Eye of the Cricket
5. Bluebottle
6. Ghost of a Flea

Well, well worth reading.