num_pages: 233
description: A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum spacetime. 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. Thats where Charles Yu time travel technicianpart counselor part gadget repair mansteps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When hes 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. Its called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and hes the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help himin fact it may even save his life.
language: English
title: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
publisher: Pantheon