Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (Hardcover) by Charles Yu

from ptdilloway

Some pretty funny sci-fi-related stories in here. A company where the employees are paid to feel other people's pain, two Wal-Mart employees do battle with a vain zombie, a story from the point of view of a character in a D&D-type role playing game, and a Star Trek parody about a redshirt trying ...

from gayla.bassham

There are a couple of masterpieces here--I especially liked "Hero Absorbs Major Damage" and "Standard Loneliness Package"--but most of the stories share the same bleak, world-weary mood (imagine Alice Munro and Greg Egan collaborating on a story together). Toward the end the stories began to feel...

from EBT1002

This collection of stories is a delight to read. Are they science fiction? I don't know, and reading them helped me realize how little I know of modern science fiction literature. They are certainly set in the future and have a sort of sci-fi dystopic tone to them. Yu is interested in the nature ...

from TheAlternativeOne

Book Review - Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu Sorry Please Thank You Charles Yu Pantheon Books Publication Date: July 24, 2012 222 Pages Uncorrected Bound Galley ISBN 978-0-307-90718-9 Charles Yu's much too slim volume of short stories Sorry Please Thank You is a humorous romp through a wide...

from bezoar44

Very post-modern, these stories draw on science fiction or fantasy tropes but tell metafictions. Several play with unusual narrators: an avatar in an online game; the author's alter ego; multiple selves from across the multiverse. The dominant mood is melancholy, underpinned by existential angst,...