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Author Yu, Charles, 1976-

Title How to live safely in a science fictional universe / Charles Yu.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
©2010
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1459271~S1
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 Nichols Adult Fiction  F YU    AVAILABLE
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Description 239 pages ; 22 cm
Summary 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 operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "as his guide, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory.
Subject Time travel -- Fiction.
Space and time -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Genre Science fiction.
Science fiction.
ISBN 9780307379207
0307379205
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SRP 2011
SRP 2011 X
October 14 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: Quirky and interesting with plenty of references to mathematics and physics thrown about. Plays with some fun paradoxes in time travel and metacognition. However, the underlying message of being a hero and taking control of your own destiny is neither original nor presented in an engaging way. Gives you a lot to think about, but not something I'd want to read twice.
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