How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, (Paperback)

from Course8

Charles Yu, the author, has created a fictional universe for Charles Yu, the time machine repairman. Yu choses to live in solitude inside his own time machine and each night returns to a nameless, dateless day in a cul-de-sac of space time rather than the apartment he rents. He seeks his father w...

from fyrefly98

Summary: Our narrator is a time-machine repairman, living alone inside his own personal time machine, with nothing but the ship's computer and his non-existent dog Ed for company. His father, one of the time machine's inventors, has been missing for years, and his mother has locked herself in a o...

from suetu

Yu's fanciful debut would have benefited from warp drive There's a great deal to like in Charles Yu's debut novel, and not much to hate. It's the story of a reclusive time machine repairman also named Charles Yu. Yu has sort of been drifting through life, a not very active participant. He lives i...

from MGD_L

I agree with fyrefly98 and believe that the 'recommendation' portion of the review was a succinct way of discussing the genre-spanning core of the book. The critics that disliked the book may have been disappointed with the lack of science fiction but the author holds the subject matter in high r...

from BurgandyIce

My Review Part I: Good grief. This book is an inventive knot. It takes Science and the Space Travel and mooshes it together with Fiction and alternative universes, kneads it into an artistic, theoretical whole and then lets it expand into something completely unique. The result is scientific and ...