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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu
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Description for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Paperback. A time machine repairman becomes trapped in a time loop of his own making: Douglas Adams collides with Douglas Coupland Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 183 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious. - Sunday Times Highly inventive and hilarious - The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________ With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, spying on 39 different versions of ... Read more
Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious. - Sunday Times Highly inventive and hilarious - The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________ With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, spying on 39 different versions of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848876828
SKU
V9781848876828
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Ref
99-10
About Charles Yu
Charles Yu was born in Los Angeles. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines and literary journals. In 2007, he was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its '5 Under 35' a program which asks five previous National Book Award fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction under 35 writer whose work they ... Read more
Reviews for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
'A small wonder of a novel.'
Time Magazine, `Top 10 Books of the Year 2010'
Buzzes with ideas, takes stylistic risks successfully, and is tightly focussed on the emotional impact of the story... Yu's enthralling debut makes me yearn for his next one
Scotland on Sunday
A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more ... Read more
Time Magazine, `Top 10 Books of the Year 2010'
Buzzes with ideas, takes stylistic risks successfully, and is tightly focussed on the emotional impact of the story... Yu's enthralling debut makes me yearn for his next one
Scotland on Sunday
A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more ... Read more