 A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chrono-Synclastic Infidibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of  Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , including Cat s Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House,  Harrison Bergeron , and  Happy Birthday, Wanda June .