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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu
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Description for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Paperback. A time machine repairman becomes trapped in a time loop of his own making: Douglas Adams collides with Douglas Coupland Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 183 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious. - Sunday Times Highly inventive and hilarious - The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________ With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, spying on 39 different versions of himself in alternate universes (and discovered that 35 of them are total jerks). And he's kind of fallen in love with TAMMY, which is bad because she doesn't have a module for that. With all that's on his mind, perhaps it's no surprise that when he meets his future self, he shoots him in the stomach. And that's a beginner's mistake for a time machine repairman. Now he's stuck in a time loop, going in circles forever. All he has, wrapped in brown paper, is the book his future self was trying to press into his hands. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. And he's the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could save him.
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848876828
SKU
V9781848876828
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99-50
About Charles Yu
Charles Yu was born in Los Angeles. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines and literary journals. In 2007, he was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its '5 Under 35' a program which asks five previous National Book Award fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction under 35 writer whose work they find particularly exciting. Yu was selected for the honour by Richard Powers. This is his first novel.
Reviews for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
'A small wonder of a novel.'
Time Magazine, `Top 10 Books of the Year 2010'
Buzzes with ideas, takes stylistic risks successfully, and is tightly focussed on the emotional impact of the story... Yu's enthralling debut makes me yearn for his next one
Scotland on Sunday
A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than the sum of its part, and smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body
International Herald Tribune
pretty superb: involving, clever, perky, properly science fictional and above all funny... a most excellent debut
The Guardian
Highly inventive and hilarious
The Times
A fantastic time travel story, one that blends fiction and reality, a sharp style of storytelling that blew my mind... this is one of the most important books of the genre to be published this year
SF Signal
If sci-fi is the literature of ideas, Charles Yu is already a master of the form: there are more fascinating, bizarre and clever concepts per page than most writers manage in an entire novel.
Time Out
A man with a time machine shoots a future version of himself... The old time-travel paradox becomes a witty and plangent enquiry into the nature of memory. It's SF - but not as we know it.
Financial Times
Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious.
Sunday Times
A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story
New York Times
Time Magazine, `Top 10 Books of the Year 2010'
Buzzes with ideas, takes stylistic risks successfully, and is tightly focussed on the emotional impact of the story... Yu's enthralling debut makes me yearn for his next one
Scotland on Sunday
A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than the sum of its part, and smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body
International Herald Tribune
pretty superb: involving, clever, perky, properly science fictional and above all funny... a most excellent debut
The Guardian
Highly inventive and hilarious
The Times
A fantastic time travel story, one that blends fiction and reality, a sharp style of storytelling that blew my mind... this is one of the most important books of the genre to be published this year
SF Signal
If sci-fi is the literature of ideas, Charles Yu is already a master of the form: there are more fascinating, bizarre and clever concepts per page than most writers manage in an entire novel.
Time Out
A man with a time machine shoots a future version of himself... The old time-travel paradox becomes a witty and plangent enquiry into the nature of memory. It's SF - but not as we know it.
Financial Times
Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious.
Sunday Times
A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story
New York Times