How to live safely in a science fictional universe : a novel /

Yu, Charles, 1976-

How to live safely in a science fictional universe : a novel / Charles Yu - First Vintage Contemporaries edition - 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Originally published by Pantheon Books in 2010

"Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life." --Publisher

Young Adult


Text in English

9780307739452 0307739457


Time travel--Fiction
Space and time--Fiction
Fathers and sons--Fiction

813.6 / .Y94 2011