After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry SouthernVonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S. Doxey -- The private person as public figure / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Cat's cradle / Richard Giannone -- Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons -- From formula toward experiment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Playful genesis and dark revelation in Cat's cradle / Leonard Mustazza -- Bokononism as a structure of ironies / Zoltan Ab di-Nagy -- Mother night, Cat's cradle, and The crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Vonnegut's invented religions as sense-making systems / Peter Freese -- Icy solitude : magic and violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo / Wendy B. Faris -- Vonnegut's cosmos / David H. Goldsmith -- Cosmic irony / James Lundquist -- Cat's cradle : Jonah and the whale / Lawrence R. Broer -- Hurting 'til it laughs : the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed -- The paradox of "awareness" and language in Vonnegut's fiction / Loree Rackstraw.