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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Published
Sep 2010
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Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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256

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From a 5 Under 35 winner, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time.

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.

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First Edition Jul 2011 Vintage ISBN 0307739457
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May 2011 Corvus ISBN 1848876823
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Sep 2010 Pantheon (UK) ISBN 0307379205
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Oct 2010 Corvus ISBN 1848876807
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Sep 2010 Knopf ISBN 0307379884
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Sep 2010 Knopf ISBN 0307379485
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Sep 2010 Vintage ISBN B003V1WXIW
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Apr 2011 Recorded Books ISBN B004V8P2KA
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