The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)

When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spacecraft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy, and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every 59 days, and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened or that will ever happen.

The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.