The Sirens of Titan

When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy & only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, RI, once every fifty-nine days & then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened & everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan--Saturn's moon--is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft...