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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseFrom a 5 Under 35 winner, 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

From a 5 Under 35 winner, 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/28/2011
ISBN: 9780307739452
Pages: 239
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.27w x 0.78d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/17/2011 pg. 24
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