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How to live safely in a science fictional universe
Charles Yu
Science Fiction / Literary Fiction
How to live safely in a science fictional universe
by Charles Yu
—· 320 p· 2010
Hugo Awardphilosophicalreflectivefunny
Overview
About
Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "as his guide, Yu sets out, and bac…
Pages
320
Pantheon Books
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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—
Reader feel
Metafiction
10
Prose
9
Narration
9
Conceptual Imagination
9
Worldbuilding
8
Emotional depth
8
Plot twists
7
Pacing
7
My journey
My experience
private
Status
Unread
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DNF
Finished
My rating
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Books like How to live safely in a science fictional universe
How to live safely in a science fictional universe
Charles Yu
Science Fiction / Literary Fiction
How to live safely in a science fictional universe
by Charles Yu
— · —· 320 pages· 2010
Hugo Awardphilosophicalreflectivefunny
Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "as his guide, Yu sets out, and bac…
Pages
320
Pantheon Books
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
—
—
Metafiction
10
Prose
9
Narration
9
Conceptual Imagination
9
Worldbuilding
8
Emotional depth
8
Plot twists
7
Pacing
7
My journey
Status
Unread
Started
DNF
Finished
My rating
Burndown
Reading days
Notes
your reading journal
Books like How to live safely in a science fictional universe