How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

A Novel

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jun 28, 2011
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307739452

Format

Trade Paperback

Format:

Trade Paperback

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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.