How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

By Charles Yu

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307739457
• ISBN13: 9780307739452
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A quick and interesting read with fun ideas.

The author is clearly brilliant, but doesn’t seem to be taking the plot too seriously until wham! One profound thought and poignant bit of prose after another, tucked around bits of math and concepts and soft adventure. While I do not profess to understand everything about the book, I think it’s also the point. It certainly makes you laugh and think