How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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Charles Yu
From the National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father ... through quantum space-time. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life.
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Author
Charles Yu
Pages
256
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2010-09-07
ISBN
0307379485 9780307379481
Ratings
Google: 4
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"DNF...I don’t think I “got” this book. It was meta and very clever but ultimately it didn’t work for me. I do find it wildly ironic that I can’t even finish this book while the author has recently won one of the most prestigious awards in literature. Perhaps I will read his new book in the future, since I love some of the ideas in here, it’s just too chaotic for my brain right now."
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Allie Peduto