How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story New York Times

'Charles Yu is a tremendously clever writer, and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is marvellously written, sweetly geeky, good clean time-bending fun.' AUDREY NIFFENEGGER A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story - New York Times Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics - Yu's spirit of invention is infectious. - Sunday Times A man with a time machine shoots a future version of himself... The old time-travel paradox becomes a witty and plangent enquiry into the nature of memory. It's SF - but not as we know it. - Financial Times If sci-fi is the literature of ideas, Charles Yu is already a master of the form: there are more fascinating, bizarre and clever concepts per page than most writers manage in an entire novel. - Time Out A fantastic time travel story, one that blends fiction and reality, a sharp style of storytelling that blew my mind... this is one of the most important books of the genre to be published this year - SF Signal Highly inventive and hilarious - The Times pretty superb: involving, clever, perky, properly science fictional and above all funny... a most excellent debut - The Guardian A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than the sum of its part, and smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body - International Herald Tribune Buzzes with ideas, takes stylistic risks successfully, and is tightly focussed on the emotional impact of the story... Yu's enthralling debut makes me yearn for his next one - Scotland on Sunday 'A small wonder of a novel.' - Time Magazine, 'Top 10 Books of the Year 2010'