商品簡介
"This book is cool as hell. If I could go back in time and read it earlier, I would."-Colson Whitehead, author of Sag Harbor
"Yu is a tremendously clever writer, and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is marvelously written, sweetly geeky, good clean time-bending fun."-Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry
"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is that rare thing—a truly original novel. Yu has built a strange, beautiful, intricate machine, with a pulse that carries as much blood as it does electricity."-Kevin Brockmeier, author of The View from the Seventh Layer
"Funny, touching, and weirdly beautiful. This book is awesome."-Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World
"Poignant, hilarious, and electrically original. Bends time, mind, and genre."-David Eagleman, author of Sum
"Marvelously entertaining.. Funny [and] moving...One of the trippiest and most thoughtful novels I've read all year, one that begs for a single sit-down experience...Like the work of Richard Powers...How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe fuses the scientific and the emotional in ways that bring about something new."-Sarah Weinman, The Daily Beast
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father...through quantum space-time.
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician —part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he's the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life.
Wildly new and adventurous, Yu's debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space-time.
作者簡介
Charles Yu received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero, and he has also received the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. His work has been published in the Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and Mid-American Review, among other journals. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children
