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-ga
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
β Scribed by Charles Yu
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 396 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307379485
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**- This ebook includes photos, illustrations, and a bonus short story, which add to the ever-expanding world of Minor Universe 31.
Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinks in text.**
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space--time.
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician--part counselor, part gadget repair man--steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu...
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Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operat
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum spaceβtime. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where par
SUMMARY: Questions for Charles Yu on How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Youβre a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award-winner and this is your debut novel. When and why did you start writing, and what advice do you have for other young writers out there trying to get
Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operat
SUMMARY: Questions for Charles Yu on How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Youre a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award-winner and this is your debut novel. When and why did you start writing, and what advice do you have for other young writers out there trying to get