![]() ![]() His objective is to have maintenance work done on his time machine and when he goes to pick it up, he encounters his future self. He makes one trip to a city in Minor Universe 31, a residential and entertainment world made mostly from a science fiction "substrate," where the company for which he works is headquartered. Charles's parents, a few clients, and several street performers are the only other humans that he encounters during the course of the story. Accompanied only by his dog and a computer that has the pixilated face of a female and a cartoon-like voice, Charles hopes to one day locate his father in some alternate universe to which he apparently has traveled in a time machine. The protagonist is a lonely and rather sad fellow, who spends much of his non-working hours drifting along in his capsule, thinking about his past and his parents, especially his father who disappeared long ago. As the novel progresses, it is revealed that this man's name is the same as that of the author, Charles Yu. ![]() He makes calls on people who have rented time machines for recreational purposes but have become stuck in time and must be rescued by him. ![]() It concerns a young man who has spent most of the past decade in a small time machine in his job as a time machine repairman. Charles Yu's debut novel, How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, could be described as a story about contemporary family life disguised as science fiction. ![]()
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