How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - A Novel (Paperback)


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.


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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.

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General

Imprint

Random House

Country of origin

United States

Release date

June 2011

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

June 2011

Authors

Dimensions

203 x 131 x 20mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

239

ISBN-13

978-0-307-73945-2

Barcode

9780307739452

Categories

LSN

0-307-73945-7



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