is like Steve Jobs' ultimate hardware fetish, a dreamlike amalgam of functionality and predetermination." Yu has a crisp, intermittently lyrical prose style, one that's comfortable with both math and sadness, moving seamlessly from delirious metafiction to the straight-faced prose of instruction-manual entries. A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than the sum of its component parts, and smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body." Yu is a superhero of rendering human consciousness and emotion in the language of engineering and science. Like Adams, Yu is very funny, usually proportional to the wildness of his inventions, but Yu's sound and fury conceal (and construct) this novel's dense, tragic, all-too-human heart. "Glittering layers of gorgeous and playful meta-science-fiction. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. About the Book Originally published in hardcover: New York: Pantheon, c2010.įrom the National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father.
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