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Thursday leader Geoff Rickly mined his own life for his first novel, portraying the lows of addiction and his unconventional treatment.

My favourite novel is Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens Of Titan. Aside from his use of humour to make compelling (and heart-breaking) statements about the ‘usefulness’ of life, I think Vonnegut’s genius here lies in the brevity he affords his really good ideas – of which there are a constellation.There’s a three-page aside in which he casually explains that Stonehenge was built by humans under the telepathic influence of a distant planet, just to send reassuring messages to a robot stranded in a broken ship on Mars; viewing Stonehenge from above, the robot reads the ar...