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How to live safely in a science fictional universe

Author: Charles Yu
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2011. ©2010
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Novels
Fiction
Science fiction
Time-travel fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Yu, Charles, 1976-
How to live safely in a science fictional universe.
(OCoLC)1085905414
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Yu
ISBN: 9780307379207 0307379205 9780307739452 0307739457
OCLC Number: 491896474
Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Responsibility: Charles Yu.
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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 back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory.

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