The protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five first became "unstuck in time" after being taken prisoner by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He then begins to experience his whole life, from his birth to his own assasination, out of sequence. Along the way, he witnesses the bombing of Dresden (as did Vonnegut), survives a plane crash, and travels billions of light-years away to the planet Tralfamadore, where he falls in love with a pornographic actress. So it goes.
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