A 2002 novel of this name is followed by the novels Bro and 23,000 in a namesake trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin. Sally Carrol Harper has an epiphany while visiting her fiance Harry Bellamy's family in an F. Scott Fitzgerald story whose title contains this adjective. This substance is said to be "the greatest invention of our time" in a novel that opens with a man facing a firing squad and remembering his (*) father taking him to see it for the first time. The first line of One Hundred Years of Solitude mentions this substance, a variety of which causes a global catastrophe when Papa Monzano's cor
A 2002 novel of this name is followed by the novels Bro and 23,000 in a namesake trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin. Sally Carrol Harper has an epiphany while visiting her fiance Harry Bellamy's family in an F. Scott Fitzgerald story whose title contains this adjective. This substance is said to be "the greatest invention of our time" in a novel that opens with a man facing a firing squad and remembering his (*) father taking him to see it for the first time. The first line of One Hundred Years of Solitude mentions this substance, a variety of which causes a global catastrophe when Papa Monzano's corpse, which has been exposed to it, touches the ocean in a Kurt Vonnegut novel. For 10 points, name this substance, which appears in Cat's Cradle in its dangerous "nine" form.