Yu is called in by his boss, Phil, to have his time machine serviced. Yu explains to her that because she wasn't present when it happened, she cannot stay. Yu also visits a girl who traveled to be with her grandmother as she died. He visits Linus Skywalker who tried to kill his father, Luke Skywalker because his father's fame overshadowed Linus's life. Yu travels through Minor Universe 31 fixing time machines of people who try to fix the past. He lives in his TM-31 time machine with his non-existent dog, Ed, and the time machine's depressed computer, TAMMY. The novel centers on Charles Yu, a time machine mechanic. It was named the year's second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas -runner up for the annual Campbell Memorial Award. It also includes themes about life and how we live especially with respect to time, memories, and creation of the self. The novel revolves around a search for a father and the father-son relationship. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a 2010 novel by American writer Charles Yu. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him-in fact it may even save his life. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. 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. 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.
That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician-part counselor, part gadget repair man-steps in. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past.
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.
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. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story.
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