How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

From the National Book Award-⁠winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of...
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Author: Charles Yu
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Yu, Charles

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

$26.19

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

$26.19
Author: Charles Yu
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Charles Yu
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/28/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.27w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780307739452


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/17/2011 pg. 24

About the Author
CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.

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